Rational Commitment

Author : Jules L. Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521631793
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Commitment and Social Justice written by Jules L. Coleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays concerned with fundamental issues of rational commitment and social justice to which Kavka devoted his work as a philosopher.

Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Commitment written by Brendan O'Flaherty and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chrisoula Andreou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009211560
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commitment and Resoluteness in Rational Choice written by Chrisoula Andreou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing and building on the existing literature, this Element explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect. Section 1 discusses interpersonal and intrapersonal Prisoner's Dilemma situations, and the possibility of a set of unrestrained choices adding up in a way that is problematic relative to the concerns of the choosers involved. Section 2 focuses on the role of precommitment devices in rational choice. Section 3 considers the role of resoluteness in rational choice and action. And Section 4 delves into some related complications concerning the nature of actions and the nature of intentions.

Author : Scott Sturgeon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192584669
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rational Mind written by Scott Sturgeon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics. He develops a detailed story of coarse- and fine-grained mental states, a novel perspective on how they fit together, an engaging theory of the rational transitions between them, and a fresh view of how formal methods can advance our understanding in this area. In doing so, he addresses a deep four-way divide in literature on epistemic rationality. Formal epistemology is done in specialized languages—often seeming a lot more like mathematics than Plato—and so can alienate philosophers who are drawn to more traditional work on thought experiments in epistemic rationality. Conversely, informal epistemology appears to be a lot more like Plato than mathematics and, as such, it tends to deter philosophers drawn to formal models of the phenomena. Similarly, the epistemology of coarse-grained states boils down everything to a discussion of rational belief—making the area appear a lot more like foundations of knowledge than anything useful for the theory rational decision, such as decision-making under uncertainty. The Rational Mind unifies work in all of these areas for the first time.

Author : Manuel Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199794510
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational and Social Agency written by Manuel Vargas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, with an editorial introduction situating Bratman's work and its broader significance. The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman, which breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

Author : David Gauthier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192654705
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Deliberation written by David Gauthier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades, David Gauthier has been one of the leading philosophers working on practical rationality and deliberation. This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on these topics, all but two of which were written after Morals by Agreement (OUP, 1986). They represent Gauthier's most important contributions to the theory of practical reason, moving some distance from the view a first presented in "Reason and Maximization" and developed in a much-reprinted chapter of Morals by Agreement. These essays challenge common misconceptions of Gauthier's revisionist conception of practical rationality, and provide important insights with implications for economic theory.

Author : Eva Kiefhaber
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3845290064
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises written by Eva Kiefhaber and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KMUs haben großes Potenzial, die Nachhaltigkeitsleistung der modernen Wirtschaft zu verbessern. Dieses Buch untersucht in drei Studien die Treiber von Nachhaltigkeit in KMUs: Eine qualitative Studie auf individueller Ebene zeigt, wie KMU-Geschäftsführer*innen ihre eigenen nachhaltigkeitsbezogenen Identitäten in ihrem Unternehmen verwirklichen und wie sie mit daraus entstehenden Konflikten umgehen. Eine qualitative Studie auf organisationaler Ebene untersucht, ob und wie Sozialkapital die Nachhaltigkeitsaktivitäten von KMUs fördert. Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie auf Netzwerkebene befasst sich mit möglichen Erfolgsfaktoren von interorganisationalen Nachhaltigkeitsnetzwerken hinsichtlich ihrer Relevanz für den Netzwerkerfolg. Das Buch schließt mit einem Vergleich der Ergebnisse über alle Ebenen hinweg, der Forscher*innen und Praktiker*innen einen umfassenden Überblick über die verwendeten Theorien, die wichtigsten Ergebnisse und mögliche Synergien für zukünftige Forschung bietet.

Author : Wessel Stoker
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917880
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Faith Rational? written by Wessel Stoker and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is faith rational? Some respond by providing proofs for God's existence. Others hold that no reasons for the Christian faith can be given. This book discusses different ways of accounting for faith, i.e. classical apologetics, the transcendental view that faith is part of human nature, and the view that argues for the rationality of faith on the basis of direct perceptions of God that appear to be objective. The author subsequently proposes a rational accounting for the Christian faith in our secularized and religiously pluralistic society. His starting point is the lasting religious experience of believers in everyday life. He also discusses the question of how this accounting for faith can function in a world of both secular worldviews and other religions. Religious experience is not subjective or arbitrary but rational. In these experiences human beings are involved with God. Religious experience can be described phenomenologically as an experience that transcends our capacities. God reveals himself to people primarily in narratives. Narratives have a rational structure and the Gospel narratives provide, in narrative form, arguments for faith. The assent to faith involves the whole person and stamps his life story and conduct. Assent to faith is thus affective, but that does not exclude its being rational. The positive reason for faith lies in experience itself. There are no reasons for faith outside the faith itself, but this does not mean that there are no points of contact in human existence for the Christian faith.

Author : Rowland Stout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626735
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner Life of a Rational Agent written by Rowland Stout and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical approach to the philosophy of mind, in which states of mind are identified with dispositions to behave in certain ways.The approach taken by Rowland Stout is a thoroughly up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen to be exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practical rationality is taken to be an essential aspect of our nature as conscious agents. And in describing such a version of practical rationality Stout claims we are describing the mental state of someone whose behaviour is sensitive to it.His account of behaviourism rests on two central notions - that of a causal disposition to behave and that of sensitivity to practical rationality. He explains and develops these notions in some detail, and then uses them to construct powerful and original accounts of belief, intention, knowledge, perception and consciousness.Key Features* A systematic and completely original theoretical approach to the philosophy of mind* A re-evaluation of the history of the philosophy of mind based on a rejection of the generally accepted arguments in the 1960s and 1970s used by functionalists against behaviourists* A serious engagement with the intuitively compelling issues concerning behaviourism.

Author : Mark Peacock
Publisher : Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
ISBN 13 : 9780367776909
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amartya Sen and Rational Choice written by Mark Peacock and published by Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines commitment as it has evolved in Sen's critique of orthodox rational choice theory.