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Preference and Information
2007,2016
Overview
Is it important to our quality of life that the preferences we satisfy are rational and well-informed? Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In preference-sensitive theories, preferences are important but do not count for everything. This raises the question of whether we ought to make demands on these preferences. In this book Egonsson presents a critical analysis of the 'Full Information Account of the Good', which claims that only the satisfaction of rational and fully informed preferences has value for a person. The problems he deals with include: how is an information requirement to be formulated and shaped? Is it possible to design a requirement that is both neutral to the agent's epistemic situation and reasonable? Is the requirement reasonable? Does it make sense to claim that some are better off if we satisfy the preferences they would have had in some merely hypothetical circumstances? This is an important new book on preference rationality which will be of great interest to academics and students of ethics, quality of life, and rationality.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Analysing disappointment; The quantitative element; The qualitative element; The qualitative element criticized; Comparing examples; Truth and deliberation; Intrinsic and final preferences; Strongly intrinsic preferences; A problem of hypothetical approval; Hypothetical approval in medicine; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Dan Egonsson is Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden.
Publisher
Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Ashgate,Taylor & Francis Group
Subject
ISBN
0754657256, 9780754657255, 9781138278226, 113827822X
