The Logics of Preference: A Study of Prohairetic Logics in Twentieth Century Philosophy

One The Objectivist Approach Toward the Formalization of Preferences.- 1. Prototheoretic Attempts Toward a Logic of Preference.- 2. Aristotelean Reflections in Richard M. Martin's Extensionalized Pragmatics of Preference.- 3. Rescher's Logic of Preference and Linguistic Analysis.- 4. Richard C. Jeffrey's Logic of First and Higher-Order Preferences.- Two The Subjectivist Approach Toward the Formalization of Preferences.- 5. Soren Hallden's "Puristic" Logic of the Better and Same.- 6. The Many Modal Interpretations of Prohairetic Logic: Aqvist, Chisholm, Sosa and Hansson.- 7. Von Wright's Logic of Propositions Expressing Preferences.- 8. Hochberg on the Logic of "Extrinsic Epistemic Preferability".- Postcript.- Selected Bibliography.- Name Index.