Preference and information /
Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In this book, Egonsson presents a critical analysis of the "full-information account of the good," which claims that only the satisfaction of rational and...
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2007
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| Series: | Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Analysing disappointment
- The quantitative element
- The qualitative element
- The qualitative element criticized
- Comparing examples
- Truth and deliberation
- Intrinsic and final preferences
- Strongly intrinsic preferences
- A problem of hypothetical approval
- Hypothetical approval in medicine.
