[New Entry by Fenrong Liu and Leon van der Torre on July 28, 2025.]
The concept of preference spans numerous research fields, resulting in diverse perspectives on the topic. Preference logic specifically focuses on reasoning about preferences when comparing objects, situations, actions, and more, by examining their formal properties. This entry surveys major developments in preference logic to date. Section 2 provides a historical overview, beginning with foundational work by Hallden and von Wright, who emphasized the syntactic aspects of…

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