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Preference and Choice
2011, Royal Institute of Technology
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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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