Rationality and Commitment
Contributors: Fabienne Peter (Editor); Hans Bernhard Schmid (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: January 25, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780199287260
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Economic History; Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy; Rational choice theory
Description: 13 leading philosophers and economists discuss the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's trenchant critique of rational choice theory, and propose their own answers to the question of how to account for the rationality of committed action.