Martin Holis, Martin Hollis, Hollis Martin

Reason in Action

Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book collects together essays from twenty-five years of Hollis's work on rationality and social action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447799
• ISBN-10: 0521447798
• Artikelnr.: 22061600

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue: reason in action
Part I. Rational Choice: 2. Three men in a drought
3. Rational preferences
4. The ant and the grasshopper
5. Moves and motives
6. A rational agent's gotta do what a rational agent's gotta do!
Part II. Roles and Reasons: 7. Of masks and men
8. Honour among thieves
9. Dirty hands
10. A death of one's own
11. Friends, Romans and consumers
Part III. Other Cultures, Other Minds: 12. The limits of irrationality
13. Reason and ritual
14. The social destruction of reality
15. Hook, line and sinker
16. Say it with flowers
17. Reasons of honour.