The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility

ISBN-13: 9780198878728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str.

Brian (Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Sc

Recenzje

a beautiful example of the benefits of collaboration between scientists and philosophers . . . a novel approach to utilitarianism that they take to be scientifically feasible and which avoids some of the problems associated with the traditional views . . . readers will appreciate the rich and illuminating discussion of the utilitarian tradition from Bentham to the present.

O autorze

Louis Narens is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Abstract Measurement Theory (MIT, 1985) and Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Invariance in Science (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007). Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His interests include the evolution of conventions, the social contract, inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and truth. He is the author of Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information (OUP, 2010), From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction (OUP, 2012), and Social Dynamics (OUP, 2014).