Philosophy 2073F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Puffery, B. F. Skinner
11 Jan 2019
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Arrington argues advertising does not rob us of our time. We need a better conceptual grasp as to what is autonomy. To answer he needs a better conceptual grasp of autonomy. Some argue advertising gives us useful information. Humans have desires and advertisers give us free information to help us make better decision that will satisfy our desires. Advertising is manipulative and violates our autonomy and creates false desires and leads us to buy things that are destructive and levitt argues this is why advertising makes us unhappy. Wade argues associative advertising isn"t deceptive or violates autonomy, but argues the vices that are at stake (lets arrington off the hook) Arrington mentions levitt who defended advertising on the grounds it gave us high utility. Nelson, a prof of economics defends advertising arguing advertising provides us free source of indirect information. Galbraith put forward a view whereby advertising brings very low utility. Baybrook agrees with galbraith, says (critical of advertising)
