Isaac Levi

The Covenant of Reason

Rationality and the Commitments of Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Columbia University's Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the area of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. This collection of essays presents his original and influential ideas about rational choice and belief. It covers a wide range of topics, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and the tolerance of opinions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521576017
• ISBN-10: 0521576016
• Artikelnr.: 22240373

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.