Agency, Freedom and Choice

Agency, Freedom and Choice by Constanze Binder.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Binder, Constanze (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 53
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Political philosophy.
Ethics.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Economic theory.
Operations research.
Decision making.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Philosophical Literature on (Overall) Freedom
  • 1.2 Freedom Ranking Literature
  • 1.3 The Capability Approach
  • 1.4 Outline of the Thesis
  • 2 Freedom's Agency Value
  • 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
  • 3 Diversity Revealed
  • 3.1 The Freedom Ranking Literature
  • 3.2 Diversity of Options and Freedom Rankings
  • 3.3 Definitions
  • 3.4 Similarity Relation
  • 3.5 Diversity Measure
  • 3.6 Weitzman and a Restricted Domain
  • 3.7 Diversity and Cardinality of Alternatives
  • 3.8 Conclusion
  • 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
  • 5 Freedom Rankings and Freedom's Agency Value
  • 5.1 Freedom Rankings and the Value of Alternatives
  • 5.2 Freedom Rankings between Scylla and Charybdis
  • 5.3 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
  • 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
  • 7 Conclusion
  • 7.1 Review of the Chapters
  • 7.2 Open Questions
  • Appendix 1 Diversity
  • Appendix 2 Identity and Preference
  • Appendix 3 Eligibility
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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