Rational Action - Rilegato

Harrison, T. R.

 
9780521227148: Rational Action

Sinossi

This volume is concerned with the concepts of rationality, belief and desire in the explanation and evaluation of human action.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume is concerned with the concept of rationality and the interrelations between rationality, belief and desire in the explanation and evaluation of human action. Rational Action is of central interest to historians, social theorists and economists as well as to philosophers.

Contenuti

Contributors; Introduction; 1. Rational man and social science Martin Hollis; 2. Internal and external reasons Bernard Williams; 3. Ethical consistency Ross Harrison; 4. Wish-fulfilment Richard Wollheim; 5. Holistic explanation: an outline of a theory Christopher Peacocke; 6. Rational actors in macrosociological analysis James Coleman; 7. Rational choice and political principles Albert Weale; 8. Informational analysis of moral principles Amartya Sen; 9. Reflections on the state of nature J. E. J. Altham; 10. Is there a free-rider problem, and if so, what is it? Richard Tuck; 11. Contract, coercion, and consciousness John Maguire; Index.

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9780521143738: Rational Action: Studies in Philosophy and Social Science

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  052114373X ISBN 13:  9780521143738
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010
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