Preference Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Preference Change: An Introduction

   • Till Grüne-Yanoff, Sven Ove Hansson

   Pages 1-26

3. Three Analyses of Sour Grapes

   • Brian Hill

   Pages 27-56

4. For Better or for Worse: Dynamic Logics of Preference

   • Johan van Benthem

   Pages 57-84

5. Preference, Priorities and Belief

   • Dick de Jongh, Fenrong Liu

   Pages 85-107

6. Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change Must Fail

   • Wolfgang Spohn

   Pages 109-121

7. Exploitable Preference Changes

   • F. McClennen Edward

   Pages 123-137

8. Recursive Self-prediction in Self-control and Its Failure

   • George Ainslie

   Pages 139-158

9. From Belief Revision to Preference Change

   • Till Grüne-Yanoff, Sven Ove Hansson

   Pages 159-184

10. Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?

    • Wlodek Rabinowicz

    Pages 185-206

11. The Ethics of Nudge

    • Luc Bovens

    Pages 207-219

12. Preference Kinematics

    • Richard Bradley

    Pages 221-242

13. Population-Dependent Costs of Detecting Trustworthiness: An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis

    • Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt, Stefan Napel

    Pages 243-259

14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-266

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Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for. Throughout the history of the social sciences, researchers have come against the possibility that their subjects’ preferenceswere affected by the phenomenato be explainedor by otherfactorsnot taken into accountin the explanation.Sporadically, attempts have been made to systematically investigate these in uences, but none of these seems to have had a lasting impact. Today we are still not much further with respect to preference change than we were at the middle of the last century. This anthology hopes to provide a new impulse for research into this important subject. In particular, we have chosen two routes to amplify this impulse. First, we stress the use of modellingtechniquesfamiliar from economicsand decision theory. Instead of constructing complex, all-encompassing theories of preference change, the authors of this volume start with very simple, formal accounts of some possible and hopefully plausible mechanism of preference change. Eventually, these models may nd their way into larger, empirically adequate theories, but at this stage, we think that the most importantwork lies in building structure.Secondly,we stress the importance of interdisciplinary exchange. Only by drawing together experts from different elds can the complex empirical and theoretical issues in the modelling of preference change be adequately investigated.

• Conditional Utility
• Dynamic Choice
• Intertemporal deliberation
• Preference Change
• Preferences
• Utilitarianism
• ethics
• logic

• Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

  Till Grüne-Yanoff

• Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Sven Ove Hansson

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