学术报告： “Coherent Welfarism from Inconsistent
Preferences”

时间：2011年4月1日（星期五） 下午 3:30 – 5:30
地点：清华大学 新斋238房间
主办：清华大学哲学系
报告人：Till Grune-Yanoff 博士（University of Helsinki）

报告题目: Coherent Welfarism from Inconsistent
Preferences

报告摘要: Critics of preference-centered welfarism have argued that because
people often hold inconsistent and conicting preferences, they lack
`true preferences' that could serve as the basis for welfare judgments.
This lack, they suggest, legitimizes the imposition of paternalistically
motivated values. In contrast to this claim, I present a model of pref-
erence state consolidation that restores the minimal consistency nec-
essary to make preference-informed welfare judgments, while at the
same time respecting as much as possible of an agent's actual pref-
erence state, as well as her most integrated preferences. This model
reconstructs a consistent evaluation from the agent's inconsistent pref-
erences, and hence does not impose values paternalistically. Formal
properties of the preference consolidation models are proven, its func-
tion illustrated at the hand of a concrete case, and its advantages
shown in comparison with two related accounts.