Rational Deliberation - Selected Writings

This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on practical rationality and deliberation. The chapters develop and clarify Gauthier's theory of practical rationality, and draw out insights relevant to economic theory.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I. Maximization


• 1: Reason and Maximization (1975)


• 2: Economic Rationality and Moral Constraints (1978)


• 3: Economic Man and the Rational Reasoner (1990)


• Part II. And Its Discontents


• 4: Rethinking the Toxin Puzzle (1998)


• 5: Rational Choice and Common Knowledge of Rationality (2009)


• 6: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Prisoner s Dilemma (2015)


• Part III. Intention


• 7: Commitment and Choice (1996)


• 8: Assure and Threaten (1994)


• 9: Intention and Deliberation (1998)


• 10: Resolute Choice and Rational Deliberation (1997)


• Part IV. Optimality


• 11: Twenty-Five On (2013)


• 12: Achieving Pareto-optimality (2013)


• Part V. And Beyond


• 13: Individual Reason (1996)


• 14: Reason s End (unpublished)


• 15: Friends, Reasons, Morals (2008)


• Additional Writings on Rational Deliberation

About the author

David Gauthier is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He previously held postions at the University of Toronto, and has held visiting appointments at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UC Irvine, and the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Practical Reasoning: The Structure and Foundations of Prudential and Moral Arguments and their Exemplification in Discourse (OUP, 1963), The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes (OUP 1969), Morals by Agreement (OUP, 1986), Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics, and Reason (Cornell, 1990), and Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence (Cambridge, 2006).

Summary

This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on practical rationality and deliberation. The chapters develop and clarify Gauthier's theory of practical rationality, and draw out insights relevant to economic theory.

Product details

• Authors: David Gauthier, David (Distinguished Service Professor E Gauthier, David (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Gauthier, Christopher Morris
• Assisted by: Susan Dimock (Editor), Dimock Susan (Editor), Claire Finkelstein (Editor), Finkelstein Claire (Editor), Christopher W. Morris (Editor), Morris Christopher W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192842992
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284299-2
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy