Agency, Freedom and Choice Hardcover - 2019

Name: Agency, Freedom and Choice (Theory and Decision Library A:, 53)
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by Constanze Binder

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highlights the essential role of freedom's agency value in political and moral philosophy contains a new and surprising argument for a value-based approach to overall freedom based on problems usually raised against it brings together the depth of philosophical insights on overall freedom with the rigour of axiomatic analysis reveals hidden assumptions in the literature on freedom rankings and rational choice theory shows important implications of agency for the evaluation of human development with the capability approach

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In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however, ascribing importance to freedom's agency value requires one to adopt a refined value-based approach. Binder employs an axiomatic framework in order to develop such an approach. She shows that a focus on freedom's agency value has far reaching consequences for existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one to move beyond a person's given all-things-considered preferences to the values underlying a person's preference formation. Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only) for those differences between choice options which really matter to people. Binder illustrates the implications of her analysis for the evaluation of public policy and human development with the capability approach: only if sufficient importance is ascribed to freedom's agency value can the capability approach keep its promises.

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Title Agency, Freedom and Choice
Author Constanze Binder
Binding Hardcover
Pages 159
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Springer
Date 2019-04-10
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated
ISBN 9789402416138 / 9402416137
Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.12 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 170

About the author

Constanze Binder is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics and Programme Director of the Research Master programme in Philosophy and Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Constanze studied Economics and Environmental System Science at Graz University and obtained a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Groningen. She previously taught in the Philosophy Departments of Groningen and Leiden University, worked at the Economics Department of the University of Osnabrck, and contributed to projects for the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Environment and the Austrian Human Dimensions Program. Constanze's research is on the interface of philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on the analysis of freedom, responsibility and distributive justice in political philosophy and welfare economics, as well as on the ethics of individual and collective decision making in politics and economics.

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