On Thursday 10 October 2024, A. Costella will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘On Having, and Making, Choices: The value of choice for autonomy, decision-making, and freedom‘.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Date
- Thursday 10 Oct 2024, 15:30 - 17:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Brief summary:
This thesis contributes to debates in practical and instrumental rationality, ethics, and political philosophy by exploring the relationship between the value of having choices and that of making them. It focuses on how the non-instrumental value of having, and making, choices affects the conceptualization and appraisal of theories of practical and instrumental rationality, autonomy, and the measurement of freedom.
It addresses two questions:
- How does the non-instrumental value of having and making choices affect the measurement of freedom and the conceptualization of autonomy?
- How does the non-instrumental value of having and making choices help appraise the standard picture of practical and instrumental rationality?
Answering these questions illuminates fundamental – and yet neglected – tensions between the value of having choices and that of making them.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 15.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.
