Preferences and well-being

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Title Statements

Full title :Preferences and well-being / edited by Serena Olsaretti ; contributors, Richard Arneson [and others].

Summary

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.--Publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006

Notes

"In the vast literature on preferences ... relatively little attention has been devoted to the explicit discussion of candidate accounts of preference-formation. The aim of the 2004 annual Royal Institute of Philosophy conference, which constitutes the basis for the present volume, was to foster such a discussion"--Page 1.

The Physical Object

Description:v, 279 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521695589, 9780521695589
oclc:ocm70668846
LC Classification:B1
Dewey Decimal:128.4

Introduction / Serena Olsaretti -- Desire formation and human good / Richard Arneson -- Preference formation and personal good / Connie S. Rosati -- Leading a life of one's own: on well-being and narrative autonomy / Johan Brännmark -- Well-being, adaptation and human limitations / Mozaffar Qizilbash -- Consequentialism and preference formation in economics and game theory / Daniel M. Hausman -- Preferences, deliberation and satisfaction / Philip Pettit -- Content-related and attitude-related reasons for preferences / Christian Piller -- Reasoning with preferences?" / John Broome -- Taking unconsidered preferences seriously / Robert Sugden -- Preferences, paternalism, and liberty / Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler -- Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare / Alex Voorhoeve.

Subjects

Besluitvorming Bien-Etre Bien-être -- Congrès Conference papers and proceedings Ethische aspecten Préférences (Philosophie) Préférences (Philosophie) -- Congrès Preferences (Philosophy) Preferences (Philosophy) -- Congresses Voorkeur Well-being Well-being -- Congresses