The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought - Brossura

Levi, Isaac

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521576016 ISBN 13: 9780521576017

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

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

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Descrizione del libro

Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the areas of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. For Levi, to assume a belief is akin to incurring an obligation to fulfil a commitment (hence the religious connotation in the title, with the use of the word 'covenant'). In this original and influential collection of essays, a wide range of topics is covered, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and tolerance.

Contenuti

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521576016
• ISBN 13: 9780521576017
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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