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Autore: | Egonsson Dan |
Titolo: | Preference and information / / Dan Egonsson |
Pubblicazione: | Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina: | 171/.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Preferences (Philosophy) |
Practical reason | |
Quality of life | |
Note generali: | First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 fully informed preferences has value for a person. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Preference and information |
ISBN: | 1-351-90920-7 |
1-315-24615-5 | |
1-281-10443-4 | |
9786611104436 | |
0-7546-8453-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822256503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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