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.
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.
Chrisoula Andreou is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah and an Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Her current research projects lie in the areas of Practical Reasoning, Action Theory, Ethical Theory, and Applied Ethics.
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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
* 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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