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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      28 November 1986
      ISBN:
      9781139171960
      9780521386302
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171960
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.362kg, 264 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Political Philosophy
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    It is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to juggle competing values, and that no choice will maximise satisfaction of them all. However, the prevailing account of these cases assumes that there is always a single ranking of the agent's values, and therefore no unresolvable conflict between them. Isaac Levi denies this assumption, arguing that agents often must choose without having balanced their different values and that to be rational, an act does not have to be optimal, only what Levi terms 'admissible'. This book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict. Professor Levi discusses conflicts of value in several domains - those arising in moral dilemmas, the drawing of scientific inferences, decisions taken under uncertainty, and in social choice. In each of these he adapts his theoretical framework, showing how conflict may often be reduced though not always altogether eliminated.

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    "Levi's book represents an important extension of the current discussion of conflict situations..." Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge

    "...a valuable and challenging contribution to choice theory." Ethics

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