Beyond Optimizing : : A Study of Rational Choice / / Michael Slote.
Philosophy, economics, and decision theory have long been dominated by the idea that rational choice consists of seeking or achieving one's own greatest good. Beyond Optimizing argues that our ordinary understanding of practical reason is more complex than this, and also that optimizing/maximiz...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Moderation and Satisficing
- 2. Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue
- 3. Rational Restrictions on Optimizing
- 4. Rational Restrictions Based on Past History
- 5. Rational Dilemmas and Rational Supererogation
- 6. The Rational Permissions of "Fractional Prudence"
- 7. Rationality-Consequentialism
- 8. Implications for Ethics
- Notes
- Index