Choosing Well

Choosing Well

The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial

Andreou, Chrisoula

Oxford University Press Inc

03/2023

200

Dura

Inglês

9780197584132

15 a 20 dias

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 5: Incomparability
5.1 Incomparability and the Huge-Improvement Arguments
5.2 A Complication
5.3 Conclusion

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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
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