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1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Theory and decision library. Series A, Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; v. 42 |
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Theory and decision library. Series A, Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; volume 42.
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| Contents |
Preference change : an introduction / Till Grüne-Yanoff and Sven Ove Hansson -- Three analyses of sour grapes / Brian Hill -- For better or for worse : dynamic logics of preference / Johan van Benthem -- Preference, priorities and belief / Dick de Jongh and Fenrong Liu -- Why the received models of considering preference change must fail / Wolfgang Spohn -- Exploitable preference change / Edward F. McClennen -- Recursive self-prediction in self-control and its failure / George Ainslie -- From belief revision to preference change / Till Grüne-Yanoff and Sven Ole Hansson -- Preference utilitarianism by way of preference change? / Wlodek Rabinowicz -- The ethics of nudge / Luc Bovens -- Preference kinematics / Richard Bradley -- Population-dependent costs of detecting trustworthiness : an indirect evolutionary analysis / Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt, and Stefan Napel |
| Summary |
"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 preferences. However, the success of these endeavours is seriously threatened, because precise accounts of when and why preferences change are lacking. This volume answers to this need by collecting new essays from an interdisciplinary group of experts in the field. These essays, especially written for this volume, survey the newest approaches to preference change developed in the social sciences and in philosophy, and will serve as a platform for future research. They review some standard material, including the neoclassical preference model and doxastic preference change, time preferences and the debate over policy evaluation under preference change. However, the focus is on new research that is not widely known, such as conditional utilities, non-monotonic logics, complex systems models, inter-temporal choice approaches, etc."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Preferences (Philosophy)
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Choice (Psychology)
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Choice Behavior
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Choice (Psychology)
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Preferences (Philosophy)
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Choice (Psychology)
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Preferences (Philosophy)
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grüne-Yanoff, Till, editor.
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Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048125937 |
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9048125936 |
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