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Preferences and Well-Being

Preferences and Well-Being - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780521695589
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 121.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 279
Weight: 402g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 16mm