Suchergebnisse

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

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these fields

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