Sensible Decisions
Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy
Sensible Decisions
Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy
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Description
In personal and public affairs alike we constantly confront the need for deciding among available alternatives. Philosophers have long been preoccupied with the lines of thought and principles of deliberation in resolving such choices rationally. Sensible Decisions synthesizes Nicholas Rescher's contribution to this discussion over the years.
This book is concerned with the procedural constraints that rationality imposes on our choices in the social and technological reality in which we operate. Rescher's prime aim is to illuminate some of the theoretical complications and perplexities that characterize rational procedure in matters of decision making at the public policy level.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Homo Optans: On the Human Condition and the Burden of Choice
Chapter 3 Why Be Rational? (On the Rationale of Rationality)
Chapter 4 Is Reasoning about Values Viciously Circular?
Chapter 5 Deliberative Conservatism
Chapter 6 Predictive Incapacity and Rational Decision
Chapter 7 Dismissing Extremely Remote Possibilities
Chapter 8 Nomic Hierarchies and Problems of Relativism
Part 9 Part II: Public Policy Issues
Chapter 10 Technology, Complexity, and Social Decision
Chapter 11 Is Consensus Required for a Rational Social Order?
Chapter 12 Risking Democracy (Some Reflections on Contemporary Problems of Political Decision)
Chapter 13 Collective Responsibility
Chapter 14 Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 01 Sep 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9780585466668 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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