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Why More Choice is Sometimes Worse than Less

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In this paper, I shall argue that personal autonomy requires the availability of an adequate range of valuable options from which to choose, but that the availability of a larger rather than a smaller set of valuable options can be inimical to, rather than supportive, of autonomy.

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  1. The Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    Kerah Gordon-Solmon

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Gordon-Solmon, K. Why More Choice is Sometimes Worse than Less. Law and Philos 36, 25–44 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-016-9280-2

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