Isaac Levi

The Covenant of Reason

Rationality and the Commitments of Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays by Isaac Levi on rational choice and belief, covering a wide range of topics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780521572880
• ISBN-10: 0521572886
• Artikelnr.: 23580390

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rationality and commitment
2. Rationality, prediction and autonomous choice
3. The logic of full belief
4. Consequentialism and sequential choice
5. Prediction, deliberation and correlated equilibrium
6. On indeterminate probabilities
7. Consensus as shared agreement and outcome of inquiry
8. Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy
9. Pareto unanimity and consensus
10. The paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg
11. Conflict and inquiry
12. The ethics of controversy.