Preferences and Well-Being - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521695589 ISBN 13: 9780521695589

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro:

The papers collected here, written by moral philosophers and philosophers of economics, examine what a defensible account of how preferences should be formed for them to contribute to well-being should look like and what the significance is, if any, of preferences that are arational or not conducive to well-being.

L'autore:

Serena Olsaretti is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is the editor of Desert and Justice (2003) and has also published in The Journal of Political Philosophy and Utilitas.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521695589
• ISBN 13: 9780521695589
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 279
• Redattore: Olsaretti Serena