Essays on Value, Preference, and Freedom
Publisher: Royal Institute of Technology
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9789174154214
Table of contents: title: vii
label: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; title: 1
label: INTRODUCTION; title: 1
label: 1 Frameworks for preference relations; title: 3
label: 2 The small-improvement argument; title: 10
label: 3 Preference and freedom; title: 11
label: 4 Proofs; title: 12
label: 5 References; title: 15
label: ESSAY I: VALUE AND PREFERENCE RELATIONS IN TERMS OF SWAPPING; title: 18
label: 1 Preference relations in terms of pairwise choice; title: 19
label: 2 Preference relations in terms of swaps; title: 24
label: 3 Fitting-attitude accounts of value relations; title: 27
label: 4 References; title: 29
label: ESSAY II: CONFLICTING REASONS IN THE SMALL-IMPROVEMENT ARGUMENT; title: 32
label: 1 The small-improvement argument; title: 34
label: 2 Assumption of other conjuncts; title: 35
label: 3 Reasons to believe (2) under the assumption that (1); title: 40
label: 4 Conclusion; title: 41
label: ESSAY III: FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND EXPECTED COMPROMISE; title: 43
label: 1 Introduction; title: 44
label: 2 Some previous proposals; title: 47
label: 3 The expected-compromise measure; title: 53
label: 4 A weighted version of the measure; title: 54
label: 5 Properties of the measure; title: 60
label: 6 References