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Indeterminacy and Society / Russell Hardin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 4 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691123929
  • 9781400848966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302 21
LOC classification:
  • HM1111 .H37 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. Indeterminacy -- Chapter Two. Beyond Basic Rationality -- Chapter Three. Mutual Advantage -- Chapter Four. The Greatest Sum -- Chapter Five. Marginal Determinacy -- Chapter Six. Rules for Determinacy -- Chapter Seven. Indeterminate Justice -- Chapter Eight. Mechanical Determinacy -- Appendix to Chapter Two: Determinacy in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -- Appendix to Chapter Four: Individually Cardinal Utility -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that assumption may hold true. But in strategic interaction outcomes, indeterminacy is pervasive and often intractable. Whether one is choosing for oneself or making a choice about a policy matter, it is usually possible only to make a guess about the outcome, one based on anticipating what other actors will do. In this book Russell Hardin asserts, in his characteristically clear and uncompromising prose, "Indeterminacy in contexts of strategic interaction . . . Is an issue that is constantly swept under the rug because it is often disruptive to pristine social theory. But the theory is fake: the indeterminacy is real." In the course of the book, Hardin thus outlines the various ways in which theorists from Hobbes to Rawls have gone wrong in denying or ignoring indeterminacy, and suggests how social theories would be enhanced--and how certain problems could be resolved effectively or successfully--if they assumed from the beginning that indeterminacy was the normal state of affairs, not the exception. Representing a bold challenge to widely held theoretical assumptions and habits of thought, Indeterminacy and Society will be debated across a range of fields including politics, law, philosophy, economics, and business management.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. Indeterminacy -- Chapter Two. Beyond Basic Rationality -- Chapter Three. Mutual Advantage -- Chapter Four. The Greatest Sum -- Chapter Five. Marginal Determinacy -- Chapter Six. Rules for Determinacy -- Chapter Seven. Indeterminate Justice -- Chapter Eight. Mechanical Determinacy -- Appendix to Chapter Two: Determinacy in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -- Appendix to Chapter Four: Individually Cardinal Utility -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that assumption may hold true. But in strategic interaction outcomes, indeterminacy is pervasive and often intractable. Whether one is choosing for oneself or making a choice about a policy matter, it is usually possible only to make a guess about the outcome, one based on anticipating what other actors will do. In this book Russell Hardin asserts, in his characteristically clear and uncompromising prose, "Indeterminacy in contexts of strategic interaction . . . Is an issue that is constantly swept under the rug because it is often disruptive to pristine social theory. But the theory is fake: the indeterminacy is real." In the course of the book, Hardin thus outlines the various ways in which theorists from Hobbes to Rawls have gone wrong in denying or ignoring indeterminacy, and suggests how social theories would be enhanced--and how certain problems could be resolved effectively or successfully--if they assumed from the beginning that indeterminacy was the normal state of affairs, not the exception. Representing a bold challenge to widely held theoretical assumptions and habits of thought, Indeterminacy and Society will be debated across a range of fields including politics, law, philosophy, economics, and business management.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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