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Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023)
New Books in Philosophy
The Moral Complexity of Incomplete Options
The small improvement argument basically suggests there's a bunch of different scenarios and I'll give one. In that case, the agent can correctly believe that given what matters in the case at hand, neither option is better than the other. So if based on the assumption that if two options were exactly equally good, then an option that was better than one of them would also be better than theOther. It just seems like that's the way to do justice to the moral complexity are you see your preferences as incomplete. That's the moral richness of the two options. Right? Okay. Well we'll already get positive cases where it seems perfectly reasonable for an agent's preferences to be cyclic and incomplete
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