Motivation, Deliberation and Rationality for Dynamic Choice

Yujian Zheng

ISBN 10: 1041155840 / ISBN 13: 9781041155843

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2026, 2026

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Neuware - The book explores rationality and normativity through a picoeconomic model of dynamic preference reversals and Ainslie's personal-rule approach. Focusing on negotiations between time-defined selves, it addresses key philosophical issues related to self-control and decision making over time.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Motivation, Deliberation and Rationality for Dynamic Choice
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041155840
• ISBN 13: 9781041155843
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 0D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 400 grams

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Synopsis

The book explores rationality and normativity through a picoeconomic model of dynamic preference reversals and Ainslie’s personal-rule approach. Focusing on negotiations between time-defined selves, it addresses key philosophical issues related to self-control and decision making over time.

It primarily addresses a challenge to Ainslie’s approach: how to justify the bundling relation behind personal rules. Bundling links a series of similar choices, each of which predicts the direction of all subsequent ones. The book offers a thorough defense of bundling, examining it from various perspectives. The discussion engages with important contemporary thinkers in the fields of rationality, morality and personal identity, including Elster, McClennen, Gauthier, Bratman, Mele, Nozick, Davidson and others. A central feature of this study is the attention paid to certain neglected aspects of normativity, such as cognitive bootstrapping. This involves making normative leaps to beliefs that connect consequential concerns with long-term reality checks.

This book will appeal to researchers and students of rational choice theory, philosophy of action, philosophical psychology and philosophy of economics.

About the Author

Yujian Zheng has taught philosophy at Lingnan University since 1995 and is currently teaching at Shenzhen University, with research interests in metaphysics, rational choice and related matters.