PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jakob Thrane Mainz
TI  - The Patient preference predictor and the objection from higher-order preferences
AID  - 10.1136/jme-2022-108427
DP  - 2022 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - medethics-2022-108427
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/07/01/jme-2022-108427.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/07/01/jme-2022-108427.full
AB  - Recently, Jardas et al have convincingly defended the patient preference predictor (PPP) against a range of autonomy-based objections. In this response, I propose a new autonomy-based objection to the PPP that is not explicitly discussed by Jardas et al. I call it the ‘objection from higher-order preferences’. Even if this objection is not sufficient reason to reject the PPP, the objection constitutes a pro tanto reason that is at least as powerful as the ones discussed by Jardas et al.