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 peop...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Grüne-Yanoff, Till (Editor), Hansson, Sven Ove (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 42
Subjects:
Ethics.
Logic.
Education-Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Microeconomics.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Educational Philosophy.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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