The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility
Utilitarianism is one of the most famous ethical doctrines, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. But Utilitarians and their opponents lack a clear scientific and philosophical understanding of its foundations, the measurement and aggregation of utility. This is what The Pur...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Utilitarianism is one of the most famous ethical doctrines, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. But Utilitarians and their opponents lack a clear scientific and philosophical understanding of its foundations, the measurement and aggregation of utility. This is what The Pursuit of Happiness now offers |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Cover -- The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- 1: The Pursuit of Happiness: Preview -- Part I: The Utility Concepts -- 2: Jeremy Bentham: Philosophical Radical -- 2.1 Radical Reform -- 2.2 Measuring Utility -- 3: Early Utilitarians -- 3.1 Jeremy Bentham -- 3.2 John Stuart Mill -- 3.3 William Stanley Jevons -- 3.4 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- 4: Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics -- 4.1 Weber, Fechner, and Just Noticeable Differences -- 4.2 Bernoulli's Utility Law -- 4.3 Wundt on Psychophysics of Pleasure -- 4.4 Plateau's Power Law -- 4.5 Von Kries -- 4.6 Peirce and Jastrow -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1. Fechner's Law -- Appendix 4.2. Comparison of Fechner's and Bernoulli's Approaches -- 5: Measurement Essentials in a Nutshell -- 6: Skeptics -- 6.1 Skeptics -- 6.2 Indifference Curves -- 6.3 Two Kinds of Ordinalis -- 6.3.1 Enter the Interval Scale: Franz Alt -- 6.4 Orthodox Ordinalists -- 6.5 Pareto Dominance -- Appendix 6.1. Revealed Preference -- Appendix 6.2. Revealed Preference Worked Out -- 7: Using Chance to Measure Utility -- 7.1 Von Neumann-Morgenstern -- 7.2 Ramsey -- 8: Harsanyi and Utilitarianism -- 8.1 Ideal Observer and Social Aggregation -- 8.2 Interpersonal Comparisons? -- Part II: Measurement and Psychophysics -- 9: Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.3 The "Pleasure Center" -- 9.4 The "Pleasure Chemical" -- 9.5 Pleasure and Pain -- 9.6 Measurement of Pleasure in the Best-Case Scenario -- 10: Modern Measurement -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Extensive Measurement -- 10.3 Stevens' Measurement Theory -- 10.4 Representational Theory of Measurement -- 10.5 Scale Type -- 10.6 Modern Measurement: Concluding Remarks | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix 10.1. Definition of Extensive Structure -- 11: Psychophysical Measures of Intensity -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Semiorders and Just Noticeable Differences -- 11.2.1 Comparison of Just Noticeable Differences and Standard Sequences -- 11.2.2 Luce's Axiomatization -- 11.3 Bisection Measurement -- 11.4 Making Magnitude Production Indirect -- 11.5 Ramsey's Utility Theory Revisited -- 11.6 Torgerson's Conjecture -- 11.7 Representation as a Convention -- 11.7.1 Alternative physical measurement -- 11.7.2 The Equivalence Principle -- 11.8 Cross-Modality Measurement -- 11.9 Intrapersonal Psychophysical and Utility Aggregation -- 11.10 Psychophysical Measures: Concluding Remark -- Appendix 11.1. Cantor's Continuum Axiomatization -- Appendix 11.2. Derivation of the Multiplicative Property -- Appendix 11.3. Ramsey's Theory -- Appendix 11.4. Cross-Modality Commutativity -- Appendix 11.5. Aggregation of Utilities for a Single Individual -- Part III: Interpersonal Comparisons and Convention -- 12: Product Utilitarianism and an Old-New Way to Measure Utility -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Episodes -- 12.3 Representation of Hedonic Value -- 12.4 Aggregation of Pleasures -- 12.5 Aggregation of Pain -- 12.6 Aggregation of Mixed Pleasure and Pain -- 12.7 Parfit's Counterexamples -- 12.8 Chance -- Appendix 12.1. Primary Goods and Product Utilitarianism -- 13: Dynamics of Convention -- 13.1 Interpersonal Comparisons by Convention -- 13.2 Convention -- 13.3 Interpersonal Comparisons in the Garden of Eden -- 13.4 Extended Preferences in the Garden -- 13.5 Miscoordinations -- 13.6 Three's Company -- 13.7 Utilitarianism in the Garden? -- 13.7.1 Example 1: Coordination in the Garden -- 13.7.2 Example 2: No Coordination -- 13.8 What Have We Shown? -- 14: Where Do We Stand? -- References -- Index | |
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| contents | Cover -- The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- 1: The Pursuit of Happiness: Preview -- Part I: The Utility Concepts -- 2: Jeremy Bentham: Philosophical Radical -- 2.1 Radical Reform -- 2.2 Measuring Utility -- 3: Early Utilitarians -- 3.1 Jeremy Bentham -- 3.2 John Stuart Mill -- 3.3 William Stanley Jevons -- 3.4 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- 4: Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics -- 4.1 Weber, Fechner, and Just Noticeable Differences -- 4.2 Bernoulli's Utility Law -- 4.3 Wundt on Psychophysics of Pleasure -- 4.4 Plateau's Power Law -- 4.5 Von Kries -- 4.6 Peirce and Jastrow -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1. Fechner's Law -- Appendix 4.2. Comparison of Fechner's and Bernoulli's Approaches -- 5: Measurement Essentials in a Nutshell -- 6: Skeptics -- 6.1 Skeptics -- 6.2 Indifference Curves -- 6.3 Two Kinds of Ordinalis -- 6.3.1 Enter the Interval Scale: Franz Alt -- 6.4 Orthodox Ordinalists -- 6.5 Pareto Dominance -- Appendix 6.1. Revealed Preference -- Appendix 6.2. Revealed Preference Worked Out -- 7: Using Chance to Measure Utility -- 7.1 Von Neumann-Morgenstern -- 7.2 Ramsey -- 8: Harsanyi and Utilitarianism -- 8.1 Ideal Observer and Social Aggregation -- 8.2 Interpersonal Comparisons? -- Part II: Measurement and Psychophysics -- 9: Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.3 The "Pleasure Center" -- 9.4 The "Pleasure Chemical" -- 9.5 Pleasure and Pain -- 9.6 Measurement of Pleasure in the Best-Case Scenario -- 10: Modern Measurement -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Extensive Measurement -- 10.3 Stevens' Measurement Theory -- 10.4 Representational Theory of Measurement -- 10.5 Scale Type -- 10.6 Modern Measurement: Concluding Remarks Appendix 10.1. Definition of Extensive Structure -- 11: Psychophysical Measures of Intensity -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Semiorders and Just Noticeable Differences -- 11.2.1 Comparison of Just Noticeable Differences and Standard Sequences -- 11.2.2 Luce's Axiomatization -- 11.3 Bisection Measurement -- 11.4 Making Magnitude Production Indirect -- 11.5 Ramsey's Utility Theory Revisited -- 11.6 Torgerson's Conjecture -- 11.7 Representation as a Convention -- 11.7.1 Alternative physical measurement -- 11.7.2 The Equivalence Principle -- 11.8 Cross-Modality Measurement -- 11.9 Intrapersonal Psychophysical and Utility Aggregation -- 11.10 Psychophysical Measures: Concluding Remark -- Appendix 11.1. Cantor's Continuum Axiomatization -- Appendix 11.2. Derivation of the Multiplicative Property -- Appendix 11.3. Ramsey's Theory -- Appendix 11.4. Cross-Modality Commutativity -- Appendix 11.5. Aggregation of Utilities for a Single Individual -- Part III: Interpersonal Comparisons and Convention -- 12: Product Utilitarianism and an Old-New Way to Measure Utility -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Episodes -- 12.3 Representation of Hedonic Value -- 12.4 Aggregation of Pleasures -- 12.5 Aggregation of Pain -- 12.6 Aggregation of Mixed Pleasure and Pain -- 12.7 Parfit's Counterexamples -- 12.8 Chance -- Appendix 12.1. Primary Goods and Product Utilitarianism -- 13: Dynamics of Convention -- 13.1 Interpersonal Comparisons by Convention -- 13.2 Convention -- 13.3 Interpersonal Comparisons in the Garden of Eden -- 13.4 Extended Preferences in the Garden -- 13.5 Miscoordinations -- 13.6 Three's Company -- 13.7 Utilitarianism in the Garden? -- 13.7.1 Example 1: Coordination in the Garden -- 13.7.2 Example 2: No Coordination -- 13.8 What Have We Shown? -- 14: Where Do We Stand? -- References -- Index |
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| spelling | Narens, Louis Verfasser aut The Pursuit of Happiness Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2020 ©2020 1 Online-Ressource (204 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cover -- The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- 1: The Pursuit of Happiness: Preview -- Part I: The Utility Concepts -- 2: Jeremy Bentham: Philosophical Radical -- 2.1 Radical Reform -- 2.2 Measuring Utility -- 3: Early Utilitarians -- 3.1 Jeremy Bentham -- 3.2 John Stuart Mill -- 3.3 William Stanley Jevons -- 3.4 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- 4: Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics -- 4.1 Weber, Fechner, and Just Noticeable Differences -- 4.2 Bernoulli's Utility Law -- 4.3 Wundt on Psychophysics of Pleasure -- 4.4 Plateau's Power Law -- 4.5 Von Kries -- 4.6 Peirce and Jastrow -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1. Fechner's Law -- Appendix 4.2. Comparison of Fechner's and Bernoulli's Approaches -- 5: Measurement Essentials in a Nutshell -- 6: Skeptics -- 6.1 Skeptics -- 6.2 Indifference Curves -- 6.3 Two Kinds of Ordinalis -- 6.3.1 Enter the Interval Scale: Franz Alt -- 6.4 Orthodox Ordinalists -- 6.5 Pareto Dominance -- Appendix 6.1. Revealed Preference -- Appendix 6.2. Revealed Preference Worked Out -- 7: Using Chance to Measure Utility -- 7.1 Von Neumann-Morgenstern -- 7.2 Ramsey -- 8: Harsanyi and Utilitarianism -- 8.1 Ideal Observer and Social Aggregation -- 8.2 Interpersonal Comparisons? -- Part II: Measurement and Psychophysics -- 9: Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.3 The "Pleasure Center" -- 9.4 The "Pleasure Chemical" -- 9.5 Pleasure and Pain -- 9.6 Measurement of Pleasure in the Best-Case Scenario -- 10: Modern Measurement -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Extensive Measurement -- 10.3 Stevens' Measurement Theory -- 10.4 Representational Theory of Measurement -- 10.5 Scale Type -- 10.6 Modern Measurement: Concluding Remarks Appendix 10.1. Definition of Extensive Structure -- 11: Psychophysical Measures of Intensity -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Semiorders and Just Noticeable Differences -- 11.2.1 Comparison of Just Noticeable Differences and Standard Sequences -- 11.2.2 Luce's Axiomatization -- 11.3 Bisection Measurement -- 11.4 Making Magnitude Production Indirect -- 11.5 Ramsey's Utility Theory Revisited -- 11.6 Torgerson's Conjecture -- 11.7 Representation as a Convention -- 11.7.1 Alternative physical measurement -- 11.7.2 The Equivalence Principle -- 11.8 Cross-Modality Measurement -- 11.9 Intrapersonal Psychophysical and Utility Aggregation -- 11.10 Psychophysical Measures: Concluding Remark -- Appendix 11.1. Cantor's Continuum Axiomatization -- Appendix 11.2. Derivation of the Multiplicative Property -- Appendix 11.3. Ramsey's Theory -- Appendix 11.4. Cross-Modality Commutativity -- Appendix 11.5. Aggregation of Utilities for a Single Individual -- Part III: Interpersonal Comparisons and Convention -- 12: Product Utilitarianism and an Old-New Way to Measure Utility -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Episodes -- 12.3 Representation of Hedonic Value -- 12.4 Aggregation of Pleasures -- 12.5 Aggregation of Pain -- 12.6 Aggregation of Mixed Pleasure and Pain -- 12.7 Parfit's Counterexamples -- 12.8 Chance -- Appendix 12.1. Primary Goods and Product Utilitarianism -- 13: Dynamics of Convention -- 13.1 Interpersonal Comparisons by Convention -- 13.2 Convention -- 13.3 Interpersonal Comparisons in the Garden of Eden -- 13.4 Extended Preferences in the Garden -- 13.5 Miscoordinations -- 13.6 Three's Company -- 13.7 Utilitarianism in the Garden? -- 13.7.1 Example 1: Coordination in the Garden -- 13.7.2 Example 2: No Coordination -- 13.8 What Have We Shown? -- 14: Where Do We Stand? -- References -- Index Utilitarianism is one of the most famous ethical doctrines, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. But Utilitarians and their opponents lack a clear scientific and philosophical understanding of its foundations, the measurement and aggregation of utility. This is what The Pursuit of Happiness now offers Ideengeschichte 1800-2020 gnd rswk-swf Happiness-Philosophy Utilitarismus (DE-588)4137512-9 gnd rswk-swf Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 gnd rswk-swf Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 gnd rswk-swf Electronic books Utilitarismus (DE-588)4137512-9 s Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 s Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 s Ideengeschichte 1800-2020 z DE-604 Skyrms, Brian Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narens, Louis The Pursuit of Happiness Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2020 9780198856450 |
| spellingShingle | Narens, Louis The Pursuit of Happiness Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility Cover -- The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- 1: The Pursuit of Happiness: Preview -- Part I: The Utility Concepts -- 2: Jeremy Bentham: Philosophical Radical -- 2.1 Radical Reform -- 2.2 Measuring Utility -- 3: Early Utilitarians -- 3.1 Jeremy Bentham -- 3.2 John Stuart Mill -- 3.3 William Stanley Jevons -- 3.4 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- 4: Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics -- 4.1 Weber, Fechner, and Just Noticeable Differences -- 4.2 Bernoulli's Utility Law -- 4.3 Wundt on Psychophysics of Pleasure -- 4.4 Plateau's Power Law -- 4.5 Von Kries -- 4.6 Peirce and Jastrow -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1. Fechner's Law -- Appendix 4.2. Comparison of Fechner's and Bernoulli's Approaches -- 5: Measurement Essentials in a Nutshell -- 6: Skeptics -- 6.1 Skeptics -- 6.2 Indifference Curves -- 6.3 Two Kinds of Ordinalis -- 6.3.1 Enter the Interval Scale: Franz Alt -- 6.4 Orthodox Ordinalists -- 6.5 Pareto Dominance -- Appendix 6.1. Revealed Preference -- Appendix 6.2. Revealed Preference Worked Out -- 7: Using Chance to Measure Utility -- 7.1 Von Neumann-Morgenstern -- 7.2 Ramsey -- 8: Harsanyi and Utilitarianism -- 8.1 Ideal Observer and Social Aggregation -- 8.2 Interpersonal Comparisons? -- Part II: Measurement and Psychophysics -- 9: Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Neurobiology of Pleasure and Pain -- 9.3 The "Pleasure Center" -- 9.4 The "Pleasure Chemical" -- 9.5 Pleasure and Pain -- 9.6 Measurement of Pleasure in the Best-Case Scenario -- 10: Modern Measurement -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Extensive Measurement -- 10.3 Stevens' Measurement Theory -- 10.4 Representational Theory of Measurement -- 10.5 Scale Type -- 10.6 Modern Measurement: Concluding Remarks Appendix 10.1. Definition of Extensive Structure -- 11: Psychophysical Measures of Intensity -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Semiorders and Just Noticeable Differences -- 11.2.1 Comparison of Just Noticeable Differences and Standard Sequences -- 11.2.2 Luce's Axiomatization -- 11.3 Bisection Measurement -- 11.4 Making Magnitude Production Indirect -- 11.5 Ramsey's Utility Theory Revisited -- 11.6 Torgerson's Conjecture -- 11.7 Representation as a Convention -- 11.7.1 Alternative physical measurement -- 11.7.2 The Equivalence Principle -- 11.8 Cross-Modality Measurement -- 11.9 Intrapersonal Psychophysical and Utility Aggregation -- 11.10 Psychophysical Measures: Concluding Remark -- Appendix 11.1. Cantor's Continuum Axiomatization -- Appendix 11.2. Derivation of the Multiplicative Property -- Appendix 11.3. Ramsey's Theory -- Appendix 11.4. Cross-Modality Commutativity -- Appendix 11.5. Aggregation of Utilities for a Single Individual -- Part III: Interpersonal Comparisons and Convention -- 12: Product Utilitarianism and an Old-New Way to Measure Utility -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Episodes -- 12.3 Representation of Hedonic Value -- 12.4 Aggregation of Pleasures -- 12.5 Aggregation of Pain -- 12.6 Aggregation of Mixed Pleasure and Pain -- 12.7 Parfit's Counterexamples -- 12.8 Chance -- Appendix 12.1. Primary Goods and Product Utilitarianism -- 13: Dynamics of Convention -- 13.1 Interpersonal Comparisons by Convention -- 13.2 Convention -- 13.3 Interpersonal Comparisons in the Garden of Eden -- 13.4 Extended Preferences in the Garden -- 13.5 Miscoordinations -- 13.6 Three's Company -- 13.7 Utilitarianism in the Garden? -- 13.7.1 Example 1: Coordination in the Garden -- 13.7.2 Example 2: No Coordination -- 13.8 What Have We Shown? -- 14: Where Do We Stand? -- References -- Index Happiness-Philosophy Utilitarismus (DE-588)4137512-9 gnd Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 gnd Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 gnd |
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