Multiple Self

Klappentext The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a 'multiple self'. The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual decision-making and behavior. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a 'multiple self'. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual decision-making and behaviour. This issue! a central one for several disciplines! is addressed by leading philosophers! psychologists and economists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction Jon Elster; 1. Selfdeception and the voter's illusion George A. Quattrone and Amos Tversky; 2. The goals and strategies of self-deception David Pears; 3. Deception and division Donald Davidson; 4. Deception and self-deception in Stendhal Jon Elster; 5. Self-deception, akrasia and irrationality Amélie Oksenberg Rorty; 6. Beyond microeconomics George Ainslie; 7. The mind as a consuming organ Thomas Schelling; 8. Goethe's Faust, Arrow's possibility theorem and the individual decision-taker Ian Steedman and Ulrich Krause; 9. The Buddhist theory of 'no-self' Serge-Christophe Kolm; Index of names.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jon Elster, Gudmund Elster Hernes
• Mitarbeit: Jon Elster (Herausgeber), Elster Jon (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.1987
• EAN: 9780521346832
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34683-2
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Studies in Rationality and Soc; Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy