Manfred Grauer, Michael Thompson, Andrzej P. Wierzbicki
These Proceedings report the scientific results of the Summer Study on Plural Rationality and Interactive Decision Processes orga nized jointly by the System and Decision Sciences Program of the Inter national Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (located in Laxenburg, Austria) and the Hungarian Committee for Applied Systems Analysis. The Study, which was held in Sopron over the period 16-26 Augus.t 1984, had a very special character. Sixty-eight researchers from sixteen coun tr es participated, most of them contributing papers or experiments. In addition many members of IIASA's Young...
These Proceedings report the scientific results of the Summer Study on Plural Rationality and Interactive Decision Processes orga nized jointly by the...
Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts--concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.
In three investigations, Thompson considers life, action, and practice successively, attempting to exhibit these interrelated concepts as pure categories of thought, and...
Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts--concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael...
Historic and often picturesque ruins have been an integral part of the British landscape for many centuries. They have been an influencing factor in the development of art, architecture and landscape management. However, it is only in relatively recent years that people have become interested in what these ruins could reveal about the nation's past. This book marks a return to an interest in ruins that Michael Thompson had when he wrote on the subject in 1981. This time the interest is in the development of an active relationship between the public and ruins as to how they can be preserved...
Historic and often picturesque ruins have been an integral part of the British landscape for many centuries. They have been an influencing factor in t...
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