Preferences and well-being
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Preferences and well-being
（Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 59）
Cambridge University Press, c2006
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Preferences are often thought to be relevant for well-being: respecting preferences, or satisfying them, contributes in some way to making people's lives go well for them. A crucial assumption that accompanies this conviction is that there is a normative standard that allows us to discriminate between preferences that do, and those that do not, contribute to well-being. The papers collected in this volume, written by moral philosophers and philosophers of economics, explore a number of central issues concerning the formulation of such a normative standard. They examine what a defensible account of how preferences should be formed for them to contribute to well-being should look like; whether preferences are subject to requirements of rationality and what reasons we have to prefer certain things over others; and what the significance is, if any, of preferences that are arational or not conducive to well-being.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Serena Olsaretti
- 1. Desire formation and human good Richard Arneson
- 2. Preference formation and personal good Connie S. Rosati
- 3. Leading a life of one's own: on well-being and narrative autonomy Johan Brannmark
- 4. Well-being, adaptation and human limitations Mozaffar Qizilbash
- 5. Consequentialism and preference formation in economics and game theory Daniel M. Hausman
- 6. Preferences, deliberation and satisfaction Philip Pettit
- 7. Content-related and attitude-related reasons for preferences Christian Piller
- 8. Reasoning with preferences? John Broome
- 9. Taking unconsidered preferences seriously Robert Sugden
- 10. Preferences, paternalism and liberty Cass R. Sustein and Richard H. Thaler
- 11. Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare Alex Voorhoeve.
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