Preference Change Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and Psychology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grüne-Yanoff, Till (Editor), Hansson, Sven Ove (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library ; 42
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Logic.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Microeconomics.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

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...

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.