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- catalog contributor b325715.
- catalog created "1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1984.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 180-189.".
- catalog description "I. Perfect rationality: beyond gradient-climbing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The locally maximizing machine -- 3. The globally maximizing machine -- 4. Strategic behaviour in animals and men -- 5. Functionalist explanation in sociology -- II. Imperfect rationality: Ulysses and the Sirens -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Toward a definition -- 3. Pascal -- 4. Descartes -- 5. Inconsistent time preferences -- 6. Endogenous change of preferences -- 7. Precommitment in animal behaviour -- 8. Abdication from power -- 9. Some conclusions and further questions -- III. Problematic rationality: some unresolved problems in the theory of rational behaviour -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Games without solutions -- 3. Lexicographic preferences -- 4. Subjective probability -- 5. Maximizing, satisficing and natural selection -- 6. Traditional behaviour and random behaviour -- 7. Explaining altruism -- 8. Inconstancy -- 9. Paradox -- 10. And so what? -- IV. Irrationality: contradictions of the mind -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hate -- 3. Love -- 4. Self-deception".
- catalog extent "x, 193 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521223881 (hard cover)".
- catalog identifier "0521269849 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "2735100812 (pbk., France)".
- catalog identifier "2901725708 (hard cover France)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge paperback library".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme,".
- catalog subject "153.4/3 19".
- catalog subject "BF441 .E43 1984".
- catalog subject "Irrationalism (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Psychology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Rationalism Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Reasoning (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Perfect rationality: beyond gradient-climbing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The locally maximizing machine -- 3. The globally maximizing machine -- 4. Strategic behaviour in animals and men -- 5. Functionalist explanation in sociology -- II. Imperfect rationality: Ulysses and the Sirens -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Toward a definition -- 3. Pascal -- 4. Descartes -- 5. Inconsistent time preferences -- 6. Endogenous change of preferences -- 7. Precommitment in animal behaviour -- 8. Abdication from power -- 9. Some conclusions and further questions -- III. Problematic rationality: some unresolved problems in the theory of rational behaviour -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Games without solutions -- 3. Lexicographic preferences -- 4. Subjective probability -- 5. Maximizing, satisficing and natural selection -- 6. Traditional behaviour and random behaviour -- 7. Explaining altruism -- 8. Inconstancy -- 9. Paradox -- 10. And so what? -- IV. Irrationality: contradictions of the mind -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hate -- 3. Love -- 4. Self-deception".
- catalog title "Ulysses and the Sirens : studies in rationality and irrationality / Jon Elster.".
- catalog type "text".