Rationality in Action
Rationality in Action
Contemporary Approaches
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This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, economics, and political science. It includes twenty-one selections falling under three main categories: individual decision theory; game theory and group decision-making; reasons, desires and intentionality. All the pieces have been published before in journals and have proven long term importance to theoretical work in rational action. The volume includes a general introduction on decision theory and a topical bibliography.
Product details
October 1990Paperback
9780521385985
504 pages
228 × 152 × 28 mm
0.74kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Individual Decision Theory: Concepts and Foundations:
- 1. Decisions under certainty, risk and uncertainty
- 2. Problems and revisions
- 3. Newcomb's problem and causal decision theory
- Part II. Game Theory and Group Decision-Making:
- 1. Games, cooperation and the prisoner's dilemma
- 2. Impossibility theorems for social choice
- Part III. Reasons, Desires, and Irrationality:
- 1. Reasons, desires and values
- 2. Irrationality
- Part IV. Bibliography on Rational Decision-Making.
