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Reason and Rationality / Jon Elster.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (96 p.) : 3 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691139005
  • 9781400833177
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128/.33 23
LOC classification:
  • BC177 .E4713 2009
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reason and Rationality -- Works Cited
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reason and Rationality -- Works Cited

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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