Agency, freedom and choice. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Constanze Binder.
• Authors: Binder, Constanze
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Philosophical Literature on (Overall) Freedom; 1.2 Freedom Ranking Literature; 1.3 The Capability Approach; 1.4 Outline; References; 2 Freedom's Agency Value: What it is and why it matters; 2.1 Overall Freedom; 2.2 Desire Dependencies; 2.3 The Impossibility of Paternalism; 2.4 The Non-specific Value Neglect; 2.5 Agency and the Importance of Values; 2.6 The Necessity of a Value-Based Approach; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 Choice-Relevant Diversity Revealed; 3.1 The Freedom Ranking Literature; 3.2 Diversity of Options and Freedom Rankings 3.3 Definitions3.4 Similarity Relation; 3.5 Diversity Measure; 3.6 Weitzman and a Restricted Domain; 3.7 Diversity and Cardinality of Alternatives; 3.8 Conclusion; References; 4 Plural Identities and Preference Formation; 4.1 Agency, Plural Identities and Rational Choice Theory; 4.2 Intra-personal Aggregation; 4.3 Identity Formalised; 4.4 Conditions; 4.5 Transitivity; 4.6 Acyclicity; 4.7 Identity Dissonance and a Domain Restriction; 4.8 Conclusion; References; 5 Freedom Rankings and Freedom's Agency Value; 5.1 Freedom Rankings and the Value of Alternatives 5.2 Freedom Rankings Between Scylla and Charybdis5.3 Freedom's Agency Value and Preference-Based Approaches; 5.4 Identity and Procedural Reasonableness; 5.5 Desire Dependency and the Impossibility of Paternalism, Reconsidered; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Cultural Diversity and the Capability Approach; 6.1 The Capability Approach; 6.2 Culture and the Construction of Capability Sets; 6.3 Culture and the Ranking of Capability Sets; 6.4 Norms and the Value of Functionings; 6.5 Context Dependency of Valuable Functionings; 6.6 Limits of Capability- and Freedom-Rankings; 6.7 Conclusion; References 7 Conclusion7.1 Review of the Chapters; 7.2 Open Questions; Reference; A Choice-Relevant Diversity Revealed; B Plural Identities and Preference Formation; C Freedom Rankings and Freedom's Agency Value; References; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.403; Decision making; Agent (Philosophy); Social choice; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789402416152; 9402416153
• Related ISBNs: 9789402416138
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 2, 2019)
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