NDPR Chrisoula Andreou Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Chrisoula Andreou, Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial, Oxford University Press, 2023, 200pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197584132.

Reviewed by Matthew D. Adler, Duke University

Chrisoula Andreou is one of the leading contemporary philosophers of rational choice. Choosing Well builds upon her influential articles and book chapters over the last two decades (ix-x). On a standard model of rational preferences (for short, the “classical model”), formal criteria of completeness and transitivity are both necessary and sufficient for rationality. In what follows, let x, y, etc., be options for choice. “Weak preference”, “strict preference”, and “indifference” are related as follows: x strictly preferred to y if and only if x weakly preferred to y and not y weakly preferred to x; x indifferent to y if and...