Choosing for Changing Selves
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 January 2020
- ISBN 9780198814962
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 240x159x19 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English 31
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Short description:
What we value, like, endorse, want, and prefer changes over the course of our lives. Richard Pettigrew presents a theory of rational decision making for agents who recognise that their values will change over time and whose decisions will affect those future times.
MoreLong description:
What we value, like, endorse, want, and prefer changes over the course of our lives, sometimes as a result of decisions we make--such as when we choose to become a parent or move to a new country--and sometimes as a result of forces beyond our control--such as when our political views change as we grow older. This poses a problem for any theory of how we ought to make decisions. Which values and preferences should we appeal to when we are making our decisions? Our current values? Our past ones? Our future ones? Or some amalgamation of all them? But if that, which amalgamation? In Choosing for Changing Selves, Richard Pettigrew presents a theory of rational decision making for agents who recognise that their values will change over time and whose decisions will affect those future times.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Part I: Aggregating Selves
The Problem of Choosing for Changing Selves
The Economists’ Orthodoxy: Expected Utility Theory
Existing Solutions I: The Unchanging Utility Solution
Existing Solutions II: The Utility of Utility Solution
Existing Solutions III: the One True Utility Solution
The Aggregate Utility Solution I: Which Attitudes to Aggregate?
The Aggregate Utility Solution II: The Solution Itself
Can We Compare Utilities Between Different Selves?
Why Aggregate Using Weighted Averages?
Do We Know Enough to Make Decisions This Way?
Part II: Setting the Weights
The Problem of Weighting Changing Selves
The Weight of the Past
Discounting the Future
The Nearer the Dearer
I’ll be Glad I Did It--So, I’ll Do It
The Road Ahead
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