Choosing well : the good, the bad, and the trivial / Chrisoula Andreou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andreou, Chrisoula, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Choice (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Choosing Well considers the challenges associated with effective choice over time. Andreou focuses on the role disorderly preferences play in self-defeating behavior and argues that rationality can validate certain disorderly preference structures while also protecting us from detrimental patterns of choice.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Disorderly Preferences

1.1 Cyclic Preferences, the Money-.Pump Argument, and the Puzzle of the Self-.Torturer

1.2 Incomplete Preferences, Incommensurable Alternatives, and the Small-.Improvement Argument

2. Self-.Defeating Self-.Governance

2.1 Self-.Governance

2.2 Self-.Defeating Behavior

2.3 The Satisfied Slice

2.4 Strictly Self-.Defeating Behavior

2.5 A Complication

2.6 Conclusion

3. Instrumental Rationality Revamped

3.1 A Puzzle about the Puzzle of the Self-.Torturer

3.2 The Real Puzzle of the Self-.Torturer

3.3 Rational Dilemmas

3.4 The Moral Regarding Instrumental Rationality

3.5 Making Sense of the Money-.Pump Argument

4. Parity

4.1 Parity Illuminated

4.2 Objections and Replies

4.3 Insignificant and Momentous Choices

4.4 Generalizing

4.5 Parity without Rough Equality

4.6 Conclusion

5. Incomparability

5.1 Incomparability and the Huge-.Improvement Arguments

5.2 A Complication

5.3 Conclusion

6. Betterness

6.1 "Is Better Than" versus "Is Rationally Preferred To"

6.2 League-.Based Satisficing

6.3 In Defense of Divergence

6.4 Morally Better Than

6.5 Conclusion

7. Resolutions and Regret upon Going Astray

7.1 Planning Agency and the No-.Regret Condition

7.2 What's to Regret?

7.3 No Regrets

7.4 Conclusion

8. Regret in Continued Endorsement Cases

8.1 Regret, Monism, and Pluralism about the Good

8.2 From Buttered Bagels to "EverBetter" Wine and Ever-.So-.Tempting Potato Chips

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Andreou, Chrisoula Choosing Well

ISBN:

0-19-758416-0

0-19-758415-2

0-19-758414-4