Making Choices
A Recasting of Decision Theory
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- Author: Frederic Schick, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: February 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588409
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The book aims to expand the scope and enrich the foundations of decision theory. By addressing such issues as ambivalence, inner conflict, and the constraints imposed upon us by our attachments to others, Frederic Schick reveals that our thinking is often more subtle than standard theories of rationality allow. Only a theory that respects that subtlety can illumine what is otherwise puzzling. The book contains many examples drawn from history and literature dealing with subjects such as love, war, friendship, and crime.
Read more- Very broad coverage in a very small space; little book on a big topic
- Very clearly written with lots of examples drawn from history and literature
- The product of an established figure in the field, distilling years of experience of teaching decision theory
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"The book is clearly, simply, and engagingly written with gripping examples..." Jonathan Adler, CUNY
See more reviews"This short, elegantly written book sts itself an ambitious agenda, undertaking to offer an overview of individual decision making under certainty, under risk, when values are multidemensional, and when they are conflicted. The book ougt to put Schick's important contributions in prospective for contemporary philosophers of mind, morals, and decision making." Jrnl of Philosophy
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- Date Published: February 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588409
- length: 174 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.255kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Difficult choices
2. Having reasons
3. Rationality
4. Shaping up
5. Other people
6. Social choice
7. Choosing right.
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