Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: rationality, reason
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2008-12-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0691139008
ISBN-13: 9780691139005

One of the world’s most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a

Author: Donald Davidso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rationality, problems
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-06-03
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0198237553
ISBN-13: 9780198237556

Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson’s philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributi

Author: Donald Davidso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rationality, problems
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-08-26
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0198237545
ISBN-13: 9780198237549

Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson’s philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributi

Author: Professor Amartya Sen
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: freedom, rationality
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674013514
ISBN-13: 9780674013513

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume--the first of the two--is principally concerned with rationality and freedom. Sen scrutinizes and departs from the standard criteria of rationality, and shows how it can be seen in terms of subjecting one’s values as well as choices to the demands of reason and critical scrutiny. This capacious ap

Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: rationality, nature
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1994-11-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691020965
ISBN-13: 9780691020969

Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every thoughtful person. Here Nozick continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience. In the lively and accessible style that his readers have come to expect, he offers a bold theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity’s "specialness." What are principles for? asks Nozick. We could act simply on whim, or maximize our self

Author: John Kekes
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: rationality, justification
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1976-08
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0873953568
ISBN-13: 9780873953566

Author: Ariel Rubinstein
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: rationality, bounded, modeling
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-12-26
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0262681005
ISBN-13: 9780262681001

The notion of bounded rationality was initiated in the 1950s by Herbert Simon; only recently has it influenced mainstream economics. In this book, Ariel Rubinstein defines models of bounded rationality as those in which elements of the process of choice are explicitly embedded. The book focuses on the challenges of modeling bounded rationality, rather than on substantial economic implications. In the first part of the book, the author considers the modeling of choice. After discussing some psychological findings, he proceeds to the modeling of procedural rationality, knowledge, memor