"This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It also explores their uses in everyday language and action, how they are understood in psychology and how they figure in philosophical reflection on action and morality. The book clarifies and for the most part defends...

Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Preferences, Comparative Evaluations, and Reasons -- 1.1. What are preferences? -- 1.2. Overall and total comparative evaluations -- 1.3. Preferences, reasons, and folk psychology -- 1.4....

Economic intuitions concerning rational behaviour in interactive social situations are shaped byidealized models which are regarded as “approximately true”. But ideal models cannot be meaningfullydeemed approximately true unless asymptotically convergent processes imply them as limit cases....