Agency, Freedom and Choice

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Binder, Constanze (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 53
• Θέματα: Political philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Economic theory.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.

In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however, ascribing importance to freedom�...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Philosophical Literature on (Overall) Freedom
• 1.2 Freedom Ranking Literature
• 1.3 The Capability Approach
• 1.4 Outline of the Thesis
• 2 Freedom's Agency Value
• 2.1 Overall Freedom
• 2.2 Desire Dependencies
• 2.3 The Impossibility of Paternalism
• 2.4 The Non-specific Value Neglect
• 2.5 Agency and the Importance of Values
• 2.6 The Necessity of a Value-Based Approach
• 2.7 Conclusion
• 3 Diversity Revealed
• 3.1 The Freedom Ranking Literature
• 3.2 Diversity of Options and Freedom Rankings
• 3.3 Definitions
• 3.4 Similarity Relation
• 3.5 Diversity Measure
• 3.6 Weitzman and a Restricted Domain
• 3.7 Diversity and Cardinality of Alternatives
• 3.8 Conclusion
• 4 Plural Identities and Preference Formation
• 4.1 Agency, Plural Identities and Rational Choice Theory
• 4.2 Intra-personal Aggregation
• 4.3 Identity Formalised
• 4.4 Conditions
• 4.5 Transitivity
• 4.6 Acyclicity
• 4.7 Identity Dissonance and a Domain Restriction
• 4.8 Conclusion
• 5 Freedom Rankings and Freedom's Agency Value
• 5.1 Freedom Rankings and the Value of Alternatives
• 5.2 Freedom Rankings between Scylla and Charybdis
• 5.3 Freedom's Agency Value and Preference-based Approaches
• 5.4 Identity and Procedural Reasonableness
• 5.5 Desire Dependency and the Impossibility of Paternalism, Reconsidered
• 5.6 Conclusion
• 6 Cultural Diversity and the Capability Approach
• 6.1 The Capability Approach
• 6.2 Culture and the Construction of Capability Sets
• 6.3 Culture and the Ranking of Capability Sets
• 6.4 Norms and the Value of Functionings
• 6.5 Context Dependency of Valuable Functionings
• 6.6 Limits of Capability- and Freedom-Rankings
• 6.7 Conclusion
• 7 Conclusion
• 7.1 Review of the Chapters
• 7.2 Open Questions
• Appendix 1 Diversity
• Appendix 2 Identity and Preference
• Appendix 3 Eligibility
• Bibliography
• Index.