Author: Dan Ariely
Publisher: 1//19
Keywords: irrationality, upside
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0007354770
ISBN-13: 9780007354771

The provocative follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy? In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our

Author: Sebastian Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: psychoanalysis, philosophy, irrationality
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-02-12
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 052103387X
ISBN-13: 9780521033879

In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a ’second mind’, in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic

Author: Alan Sica
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: order, social, irrationality, weber
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 1990-08-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0520072006
ISBN-13: 9780520072008

Author: Alan Sica
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: order, social, irrationality, weber
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 1988-09-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520061497
ISBN-13: 9780520061491

Authors:Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: irrationality, practical, weakness
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-02-03
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199235953
ISBN-13: 9780199235957

Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The eleven new essays in this collection, written by an excellent international team of philosophers, some well-established, some younger scholars, give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality more generally. Issues covered include classical questions such as the distinction between weakness and compulsion, the connection between evaluative judgement and motivation, the role of emotions in akrasia, rational agency

Author: Alfred R. Mele
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: control, deception, akrasia, essay, irrationality
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1992-09-24
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195080017
ISBN-13: 9780195080018

Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behavior is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality--most notably, incontinent action and self-deception--pose such difficult theoretical problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Here, Mele shows that, and how, incontinent action and self-deception are indeed possible. Drawing upon recent experimental work in the psychology of action and inference, he advances naturalized explanations of akratic action and self-deception while resolving the paradoxes around which the philosoph

Authors:Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: irrationality, practical, weakness
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-10-09
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199257361
ISBN-13: 9780199257362

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet present eleven original essays on weakness of will, a topic straddling the divide between moral philosophy and philosophy of mind, and the subject of much current attention. An international team of established scholars and younger talent provide perspectives on all the key issues in this fascinating debate; the book will be essential reading for anyone working in the area.