Rationality in Action: Contemporary Approaches

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 1/24/1991
EAN 9780521385985, ISBN10: 0521385989

Paperback, 504 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in such disciplines as 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 intentionality. All the pieces have been published before in journals and have proven long term importance to theoretical work in rational action. The volume includes a general introduction on decision theory and a topical bibliography.

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.