Table of Contents:
  • I-VI
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abstracts
  • Introduction
  • Preferences - an Introduction
  • Preferences - a Short Bibliography
  • Part I: Preference and Decision
  • Deciding to Desire
  • Desiring at Will (and at Pill): A Reply to Millgram
  • Which Preferences Shall Be the Basis of Rational Decision?
  • Intrinsic Desirabilities: A Reply to Lumer
  • The Rational Criticism of Preferences
  • Rational by Shock: A Reply to Brandt
  • Is Motivation Internal to Value?
  • Motivation and Value: A Reply to Velleman
  • Numerical Representations of Value-Orderings: Some Basic Problems
  • Interval Orders Defended: A Reply to Danielsson
  • Part II: Preference and Metaethics
  • Prima Facie Obligations in Deontic Logic: A Chisholmian Analysis Based on Normative Preference Structures
  • The Meaning of "Ought, Prima Facie" and Decision Situations: A Reply to Åqvist
  • Values and Duties
  • Beyond Duty: A Reply to von Kutschera
  • Agency, Autonomy, and Moral Obligation
  • Autonomy and Morality: A Reply to Willaschek
  • In a Subjectivist Framework, Categorical Requirements and Real Practical Reasons
  • Subjective Obligation: A Reply to Wiggins
  • Preference and Preferability
  • Goodness and Rational Preferability: A Reply to Gibbard
  • Part III: Preference and Ethics
  • Extended Preferences
  • Wish You Were Me: A Reply to Broome and a Comment on Harsanyi's Extended Preference Theory
  • Experimental Ethics: A Computer Simulation of Classes, Cliques, and Solidarity
  • Solidarity among Rational Egoists: A Reply to Hegselmann
  • The Potentialities and Limits of a Rational Justification of Ethical Norms, or: What Precisely Is Minimal Morality?
  • A Hobbesian Choice: Reply to Trapp
  • Symposium on Possible Preferences
  • Introduction to Possible Preferences
  • Possible Preferences
  • Preferences of Possible People
  • Who Counts?
  • Procreation
  • Preferences, Death, and the Ethics of Killing
  • McMahan on Psychological Continuity and the Value of Future Goods
  • A Pareto Principle for Possible People
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • 569-570