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Preference and Information (Paperback)
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Preference and Information (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
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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.
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