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Royal Institute of Technology
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philosophy, decision theory, rational choice, preference relations, rationality constraints, transitivity, completeness, incommensurability, parity, money pumps, ratifiability, freedom of choice

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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. vii
PREFACE. ix
INTRODUCTION. 1
1 Newcomb problems. 2
2 Ratificationism. 5
3 Money pumps. 13
4 The small-improvement argument. 20
5 Incomparability and indeterminacy. 25
6 Fitting-attitude analyses and value-preference symmetry. 34
7 Some new preference and value relations. 40
8 Preferences and freedom of choice. 46
ANNOTATED ESSAY SUMMARIES. 59
ESSAY I: A NOTE IN DEFENCE OF RATIFICATIONISM. 63
ESSAY II: A MONEY-PUMP FOR ACYCLIC INTRANSITIVE PREFERENCES. 69
1 Introduction. 71
2 The small-bonus approach. 73
3 The multi-dimensional approach. 74
4 The dominance approach. 75
ESSAY III: CONFLICTING REASONS IN THE SMALL-IMPROVEMENT ARGUMENT. 79
1 The small-improvement argument. 82
2 Assumption of other conjuncts. 84
3 Reasons to believe (2) under the assumption that (1). 85
4 Conclusion. 90
ESSAY IV: AN EXTENDED FRAMEWORK FOR PREFERENCE RELATIONS. 91
1 The traditional framework. 93
2 The swap framework. 94
ESSAY V: FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND EXPECTED COMPROMISE. 101
1 Introduction. 103
2 Some previous proposals. 104
3 The expected-compromise measure. 106
4 A weighted version of the measure. 110
5 Properties of the measure. 111
APPENDICES. 119
A Proofs. 119
B Alternative figures. 120

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xi, 122p
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OL25379989M
ISBN 10
9174159518
ISBN 13
9789174159516
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741261404

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