http://david.brax.nu/blog/changing-preferences/ David Brax, philosopher Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:13:21 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://david.brax.nu/blog/changing-preferences/comment-page-1/#comment-53 david Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:01:03 +0000 http://david.brax.nu/?p=201#comment-53 Thanks! Preference change is interesting, mainly because it bring out our intuitions, and sometimes confusions, about the precise nature of the relationship between preferences and our good. I guess suicide also qualifies as an interesting case in point, related to your discussion on the value/disvalue of preference satisfaction and frustration for existing and non-existing agents. I wrote my bachelor thesis on preferentialism, in fact, and it was while working on it that I started to develop a view on the concrete relation between pro-attitudes and valuable states, and also an attitudinal understanding of pleasure. Thanks! Preference change is interesting, mainly because it bring out our intuitions, and sometimes confusions, about the precise nature of the relationship between preferences and our good. I guess suicide also qualifies as an interesting case in point, related to your discussion on the value/disvalue of preference satisfaction and frustration for existing and non-existing agents.
I wrote my bachelor thesis on preferentialism, in fact, and it was while working on it that I started to develop a view on the concrete relation between pro-attitudes and valuable states, and also an attitudinal understanding of pleasure.

]]> http://david.brax.nu/blog/changing-preferences/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Niclas Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:49:52 +0000 http://david.brax.nu/?p=201#comment-52 David: Very interesting. This reminds of two brief discussions of mine (in Swedish): i) Is it desirable to start developing a preference for coffee? <a href="http://nonicoclolasos.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/ska-jag-borja-dricka-kaffe/" rel="nofollow">I hesitate</a>. ii) Is it desirable to create a child (with new preferences)? This is a different question from asking how a child affects the parents' preferences: it puts the focus on <a href="http://nonicoclolasos.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/battre-att-inte-existera/" rel="nofollow">whether it is morally acceptable to bring a being with his or her own preferences into existence</a>. David: Very interesting. This reminds of two brief discussions of mine (in Swedish):
i) Is it desirable to start developing a preference for coffee? I hesitate.
ii) Is it desirable to create a child (with new preferences)? This is a different question from asking how a child affects the parents’ preferences: it puts the focus on whether it is morally acceptable to bring a being with his or her own preferences into existence.

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