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Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Consequences of a Better Than Relationship

In accordance with the practicability assumption, not every option in a preference loop can be rationally inadvisable. Since S is any finite set here, it follows that better than as acyclic. So there's two possible scenarios. Either there's some further feature that grounds a rational asymmetry between some of the options in the preference loop or there's not. Now that further asymmetry will provide us with the rational guidance. But let's say to go back to the idea of categories, one of the options is very welcome to the agent. The other option is terrible. It's dreaded. That will provide a way of grounding a better than attribution within the preferred cycle

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