Preference and Choice
Publisher: Royal Institute of Technology
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789174159516
Table of contents: title: vii
label: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; title: ix
label: PREFACE; title: 1
label: INTRODUCTION; title: 2
label: 1 Newcomb problems; title: 5
label: 2 Ratificationism; title: 13
label: 3 Money pumps; title: 20
label: 4 The small-improvement argument; title: 25
label: 5 Incomparability and indeterminacy; title: 34
label: 6 Fitting-attitude analyses and value-preference symmetry; title: 40
label: 7 Some new preference and value relations; title: 46
label: 8 Preferences and freedom of choice; title: 59
label: ANNOTATED ESSAY SUMMARIES; title: 63
label: ESSAY I: A NOTE IN DEFENCE OF RATIFICATIONISM; title: 69
label: ESSAY II: A MONEY-PUMP FOR ACYCLIC INTRANSITIVE PREFERENCES; title: 71
label: 1 Introduction; title: 73
label: 2 The small-bonus approach; title: 74
label: 3 The multi-dimensional approach; title: 75
label: 4 The dominance approach; title: 79
label: ESSAY III: CONFLICTING REASONS IN THE SMALL-IMPROVEMENT ARGUMENT; title: 82
label: 1 The small-improvement argument; title: 84
label: 2 Assumption of other conjuncts; title: 85
label: 3 Reasons to believe (2) under the assumption that (1); title: 90
label: 4 Conclusion; title: 91
label: ESSAY IV: AN EXTENDED FRAMEWORK FOR PREFERENCE RELATIONS; title: 93
label: 1 The traditional framework; title: 94
label: 2 The swap framework; title: 101
label: ESSAY V: FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND EXPECTED COMPROMISE; title: 103
label: 1 Introduction; title: 104
label: 2 Some previous proposals; title: 106
label: 3 The expected-compromise measure; title: 110
label: 4 A weighted version of the measure; title: 111
label: 5 Properties of the measure; title: 119
label: APPENDICES; title: 119
label: A Proofs; title: 120
label: B Alternative figures