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Preference Change

Approaches from philosophy, economics and psychology

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Till Grüne-Yanoff

    1. Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Sven Ove Hansson

    1. Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • First book on preference change
  • Addresses acute problem for philosophers and social scientists
  • Interdisciplinary approach
  • Top-of-their-field contributors

Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 42)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Preference Change: An Introduction

    • Till Grüne-Yanoff, Sven Ove Hansson
    Pages 1-26

  3. Three Analyses of Sour Grapes

    • Brian Hill
    Pages 27-56

  4. For Better or for Worse: Dynamic Logics of Preference

    • Johan van Benthem
    Pages 57-84

  5. Preference, Priorities and Belief

    • Dick de Jongh, Fenrong Liu
    Pages 85-107

  6. Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change Must Fail

    • Wolfgang Spohn
    Pages 109-121

  7. Exploitable Preference Changes

    • F. McClennen Edward
    Pages 123-137

  8. Recursive Self-prediction in Self-control and Its Failure

    • George Ainslie
    Pages 139-158

  9. From Belief Revision to Preference Change

    • Till Grüne-Yanoff, Sven Ove Hansson
    Pages 159-184

  10. Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?

    • Wlodek Rabinowicz
    Pages 185-206

  11. The Ethics of Nudge

    • Luc Bovens
    Pages 207-219

  12. Preference Kinematics

    • Richard Bradley
    Pages 221-242

  13. Population-Dependent Costs of Detecting Trustworthiness: An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis

    • Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt, Stefan Napel
    Pages 243-259

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-266
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Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for. Throughout the history of the social sciences, researchers have come against the possibility that their subjects’ preferenceswere affected by the phenomenato be explainedor by otherfactorsnot taken into accountin the explanation.Sporadically, attempts have been made to systematically investigate these in uences, but none of these seems to have had a lasting impact. Today we are still not much further with respect to preference change than we were at the middle of the last century. This anthology hopes to provide a new impulse for research into this important subject. In particular, we have chosen two routes to amplify this impulse. First, we stress the use of modellingtechniquesfamiliar from economicsand decision theory. Instead of constructing complex, all-encompassing theories of preference change, the authors of this volume start with very simple, formal accounts of some possible and hopefully plausible mechanism of preference change. Eventually, these models may nd their way into larger, empirically adequate theories, but at this stage, we think that the most importantwork lies in building structure.Secondly,we stress the importance of interdisciplinary exchange. Only by drawing together experts from different elds can the complex empirical and theoretical issues in the modelling of preference change be adequately investigated.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Till Grüne-Yanoff

  • Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sven Ove Hansson

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