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
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: | 10 Nov 2024 07:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/9369 |
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