Preference change approaches from philosophy, economics and psychology

The fact that preferences change is a pressing but unresolved problem for philosophy and the social sciences. Social scientists use preferences to explain agents’ behaviour; philosophers use preferences to explicate value judgements. A lot of empirical research is invested into identifying people’s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grune-Yanoff, Till (-), Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht ; London : Springer c2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Theory and decision library. Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; v. 42.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preference Change: An Introduction
  • Three Analyses of Sour Grapes
  • For Better or for Worse: Dynamic Logics of Preference
  • Preference, Priorities and Belief
  • Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change Must Fail
  • Exploitable Preference Changes
  • Recursive Self-prediction in Self-control and Its Failure
  • From Belief Revision to Preference Change
  • Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?
  • The Ethics of Nudge
  • Preference Kinematics
  • Population-Dependent Costs of Detecting Trustworthiness: An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis.