The Covenant of Reason
The Covenant of Reason
Rationality and the Commitments of Thought
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Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the areas of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. This collection of essays presents his original and influential ideas about rational choice and belief. A wide range of topics is covered, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and the tolerance of opinions. This major collection will be of interest to a wide range of philosophers in epistemology, logic, and philosophy of science, as well as economists, decision theorists, and statisticians.
- Levi is the prime selling point; an internationally respected philosopher in the fields of rational-choice and decision theory
- More accessible than Levi's last book, For the Sake of the Argument
- International appeal of topic
- Interdisciplinary interest across philosophy, decision theory, and economics
Product details
September 1997Paperback
9780521576017
276 pages
230 × 154 × 18 mm
0.432kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Rationality and commitment
- 2. Rationality, prediction and autonomous choice
- 3. The logic of full belief
- 4. Consequentialism and sequential choice
- 5. Prediction, deliberation and correlated equilibrium
- 6. On indeterminate probabilities
- 7. Consensus as shared agreement and outcome of inquiry
- 8. Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy
- 9. Pareto unanimity and consensus
- 10. The paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg
- 11. Conflict and inquiry
- 12. The ethics of controversy.
