Adaptive preferences: Merging political accounts and well-being accounts

Rosa Terlazzo*

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Abstract

Accounts of adaptive preferences are of two kinds: well-being accounts fully theorized for their own sake and political accounts theorized to facilitate the political project of reducing oppression and marginalization. Given their practical role, the latter are often less fully theorized, and are therefore less robust to theoretical criticism. In this paper, I first draw on well-being accounts to identify the well-theorized elements that political accounts should want to adopt in order to strengthen their project and avoid common criticisms. Second, I appeal to the political project to show the shortcomings of the well-being accounts on which I draw.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)179-196
Number of pages18
JournalCanadian Journal of Philosophy
Volume45
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2015
Externally publishedYes

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