The Many Futures of a Decision

Zusatztext Jay Lampert has written a provocative book on the temporality of decisions. He intertwines the book’s innovative insight with a masterly and clear treatment of major continental and analytic thinkers as well as with discussions of temporal logic, decision theory, quantum physics, and the Chinese game of Go. Lampert also considers the vital implications of his thesis for ethical responsibility, especially for an age in which fundamentalisms strive to crowd out more judicious and imaginative thought. It’s a must read for scholars and theoreticians working on the relation between decision and time and will be of great interest to those concerned more generally with contemporary continental philosophy. Informationen zum Autor Jay Lampert is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. Klappentext Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time.When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures. Vorwort An impressive philosophical work on decisions and decision making, the implications decisions have for the future, and the articulation of a theory of future time. Zusammenfassung Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time.When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to Concepts – What is the temporal referent of a decision?1. Sartre – Can a decision be binding on the future? The future without continuity2. Husserl – Decision-options and temporal overlap3. Heidegger – The original decision to decide. Continuity without a future4. Kierkegaard – Decision as promise: Decisionism in religion. Plus: Kant’s moral postulate of hope and Pas...

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• Authors: Jay Lampert
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2018
• EAN: 9781350047792
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04779-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works