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Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare

Voorhoeve, Alex ORCID: 0000-0003-3240-3835 (2006) Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare. In: Olsaretti, Serena, (ed.) Preferences and Well-Being. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 265-279. ISBN 9780521695589

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book Section
Official URL: http://www.cambridge.org/
Additional Information: © 2006 Cambridge University Press
Divisions: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2008 08:43
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2024 07:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/9369

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