Reason and Rationality /
Elster, Jon
Reason and Rationality / Jon Elster. - Course Book - 1 online resource (96 p.) : 3 line illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reason and Rationality -- Works Cited
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a wealth of historical and contemporary illustrations, Reason and Rationality marks a new development in Elster's thinking while at the same time providing a brief, elegant, and accessible introduction to his work.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691139005 9781400833177
10.1515/9781400833177 doi
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Humanism.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Practical reason.
Rational choice theory.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
BC177 / .E4713 2009
128/.33
Reason and Rationality / Jon Elster. - Course Book - 1 online resource (96 p.) : 3 line illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reason and Rationality -- Works Cited
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a wealth of historical and contemporary illustrations, Reason and Rationality marks a new development in Elster's thinking while at the same time providing a brief, elegant, and accessible introduction to his work.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691139005 9781400833177
10.1515/9781400833177 doi
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Humanism.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Practical reason.
Rational choice theory.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
BC177 / .E4713 2009
128/.33