Rationality in Action: Contemporary Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780521385985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 504 str.

Paul K. Moser; Paul K. Moser; Paul K. Moser

Opis

This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in such disciplines ms 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 irrationality. All the pieces have been published before in journals and have been proven to be of long-term importance to theoretical work in rational action. Among the authors represented are Leonard Savage, Maurice Allais, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Herbert Simon, Robert Nozick, John Harsanyi, Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, Bernard Williams, and Donald Davidson.The volume includes a general introduction on decision theory and a topical bibliography.

Spis treści

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.