Rationality, Rules, and Structure (Theory and Decision Library A:)

Nida-Rümelin, Julian (Editor) / Spohn, W. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9048154634 / ISBN 13: 9789048154630

Published by Springer Netherlands, 2000

About this Item

224 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.52 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rationality, Rules, and Structure (Theory and Decision Library A:)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048154634
• ISBN 13: 9789048154630
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.35 kilograms

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Synopsis

It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? What bearing does this have on the theory of practical rationality? These issues can only be discussed within an interdisciplinary setting, with researchers drawn from philosophy, decision theory and the economic and social sciences. The problem is of profound, fundamental concern to the social scientist and has attracted a great deal of intellectual effort. Contributors include distinguished researchers in their respective fields and the book thus presents state-of-the-art theory. It can also be used as a textbook in advanced philosophy, economics and social science classes.

From the Back Cover

This book contains substantially extended and revised versions of the best papers from the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 8-12, 2010.

Two invited papers are presented together with 39 contributions, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 full papers presented at the conference (out of 448 submissions). They reflect state-of-the-art research work that is often driven by real-world applications, thus successfully relating the academic with the industrial community. The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, information systems analysis and specification, software agents and internet computing, and human-computer interaction.