Full-Information Theories of Individual Good

Social Theory and Practice 21 (1):1-30 (1995)
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This paper is a criticism of full-information theories of welfare. Such theories unsuccessfully attempt to accommodate an internalist intuition (that one's good depends in some way on one's desires or hypothetical desire) with a rationalist intuition (that only fully-informed desires are relevant to one's good).

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10.5840/soctheorpract199521116

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