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Big Decisions: Opting, Converting, Drifting1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2006

Edna Ullmann-Margalit
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I want to focus on some of the limits of decision theory that are of interest to the philosophical concern with practical reasoning and rational choice. These limits should also be of interest to the social-scientists’ concern with Rational Choice.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 58: Political Philosophy , May 2006 , pp. 157 - 172
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I am indebted to Avishai Margalit, Pasquale Pasquino and Cass Sunstein for helpful discussions and detailed comments on earlier drafts. I have also greatly profited from Eric Dickson’s commentary and from the general discussion at the conference on Epistemologies of Rational Choice, NYU, December 3—4, 2004.

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1 I am indebted to Avishai Margalit, Pasquale Pasquino and Cass Sunstein for helpful discussions and detailed comments on earlier drafts. I have also greatly profited from Eric Dickson’s commentary and from the general discussion at the conference on Epistemologies of Rational Choice, NYU, December 3—4, 2004.

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