Sensible Decisions: Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy - Hardcover

Rescher, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742514900 ISBN 13: 9780742514904

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

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...

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About the Author

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a former president of the American Philosophical Association and president-elect of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He is the author of over 100 books ranging over many areas of philosophy.

Review

Non-technical, accessible, cogent, and very interesting. Sensible Decisions is not only a good introduction to the subject of rational choice, but has much to offer those with a great deal of background in the field..... (Samuel C. Wheeler III)

This is a very nice little handbook that everyone should read. It clarifies many general epistemological problems in short, concise chapters. Recommended. (Choice Magazine)

In this fine collection of essays, Nicholas Rescher...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0742514900
• ISBN 13: 9780742514904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160