Rational Deliberation

Author : Brian Skyrms
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 067421885X

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The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation by Brian Skyrms Pdf

Brian Skyrms constructs a theory of "dynamic deliberation" and uses it to investigate rational decisionmaking in cases of strategic interaction. This illuminating book will be of great interest to all those in many disciplines who use decision theory and game theory to study human behavior and thought. Skyrms begins by discussing the Bayesian theory of individual rational decision and the classical theory of games, which at first glance seem antithetical in the criteria used for determining action. In his effort to show how methods for dealing with information feedback can be productively combined, the author skillfully leads us through the mazes of equilibrium selection, the Nash equilibria for normal and extensive forms, structural stability, causal decision theory, dynamic probability, the revision of beliefs, and, finally, good habits for decision. The author provides many clarifying illustrations and a handy appendix called "Deliberational Dynamics on Your Personal Computer." His powerful model has important implications for understanding the rational origins of convention and the social contract, the logic of nuclear deterrence, the theory of good habits, and the varied strategies of political and economic behavior.

Author : Guido Pincione,Fernando R. Tesón
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521862691

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Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation by Guido Pincione,Fernando R. Tesón Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and sustained critique of theories of deliberative democracy.

Author : David Gauthier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192654700

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Rational Deliberation by David Gauthier Pdf

For several decades, David Gauthier has been one of the leading philosophers working on practical rationality and deliberation. This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on these topics, all but two of which were written after Morals by Agreement (OUP, 1986). They represent Gauthier's most important contributions to the theory of practical reason, moving some distance from the view a first presented in "Reason and Maximization" and developed in a much-reprinted chapter of Morals by Agreement. These essays challenge common misconceptions of Gauthier's revisionist conception of practical rationality, and provide important insights with implications for economic theory.

Author : David P. Gauthier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0192654691

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Rational Deliberation by David P. Gauthier Pdf

This edited volume 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.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822973683

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Aporetics by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.

Author : Cheng Yuan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811086519

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Practical Intellect and Substantial Deliberation by Cheng Yuan Pdf

This book presents an anti-intellectualist view of how the cognitive-mental dimension of human intellect is rooted in and interwoven with our embodied-internal components including emotion, perception, desire, etc., by investigating practical forms of thinking such as deliberation, planning, decision-making, etc. With many thought-provoking statements, the book revises some classical notions of rationality with new interpretation: we are “rational animals”, which means we have both rational capabilities, such as calculation, evaluation, justification, etc., and more animal aspects, like desire, emotion, and the senses. According to the traditional position of rationalism, we use well-grounded reason as the fundamental basis of our actions. But this book argues that we simply perform our practical intellect intuitively and spontaneously, just like playing music. By this the author turns the dominant metaphor of “architecture” in understanding of human rationality to that of “music-playing”. This book presents a groundbreaking and compelling critique of today’s pervasively reflective-intellectual culture, just as Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor and other philosophers diagnose, and makes any detached notion of rationality and formalized understanding of human intellect highly problematic.Methodologically, it not only reconciles the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition with analytical approaches, but also integrates various theories, such as moral psychology, emotional studies, action theory, decision theory, performativity studies, music philosophy, tacit knowledge, collective epistemology and media theory. Further, its use of everyday cases, metaphors, folk stories and references to movies and literature make the book easy to read and appealing for a broad readership.

Author : John Parkinson,Jane Mansbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107025394

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Deliberative Systems by John Parkinson,Jane Mansbridge Pdf

A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.

Author : David P. Gauthier,Université du Québec à Montréal. Groupe de recherche en épistémologie comparée
Publisher : [Montréal] : Groupe de recherche en épistémologie comparée, Université du Québec à Montréal
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2894490275

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Resolute Choice and Rational Deliberation by David P. Gauthier,Université du Québec à Montréal. Groupe de recherche en épistémologie comparée Pdf

Author : Paul Gunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351569835

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Democratic Deliberation in the Modern World by Paul Gunn Pdf

Would ordinary citizens benefit if public decisions were increasingly based on an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons rather than mere voting or choices in the market? Debates amongst deliberative democrats often proceed as though this process of public reasoning is precisely what the democratic ideals of freedom and equality require. Less attention has been paid to whether an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons is possible in any realistic modern setting, and what the effects would be of trying to move democratic institutions in a deliberative direction. To examine these effects, the contributors to this collection of essays bring together a number of analyses of the practical implications of expanding deliberative processes. Some consider the prevailing epistemic conditions in modern societies and their likely effects on deliberative reasoning. Others discuss the politics of these societies, and especially the likely effects of existing political divisions on democratic deliberation. Lastly, the question of what we might hope to see and what we might hope to avoid from political argument is addressed. Considered together, these three foci should equip readers to decide whether deliberative democracy is feasible and, if so, if it is desirable.This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review.

Author : Maurizio d'Entreves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351522878

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Democracy as Public Deliberation by Maurizio d'Entreves Pdf

One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of democracy derived from economics, such as the theory of rational choice, the idea of deliberative democracy, or decision-making based on public deliberations among free and equal citizens, represents a highly significant development in democratic theory. Exploring this development, this book provides a fresh and original perspective on a theme at the center of current debates in democratic theory and practice. The essays collected in this volume offer a series of powerful arguments in support of the view that fair and equal treatment of groups is best defended on the basis of a theory of public deliberation. Such a theory has both a normative and institutional dimension. It provides a framework for the normative justification of state policies toward socially or culturally disadvantaged groups, and suggests several institutional mechanisms, such as deliberative forums and citizen's juries, where the voices of disadvantaged groups can be articulated under fair conditions and become effective in shaping' public policy. Democracy as Public Deliberation reminds us that the issue of democracy is not simply one of top-down management and control, but bottom-up considerations that are often located in ethnic, religious and linguistic groups. The great virtue of this volume is to identify statist systems that claim to be democratic, but only in terms of the dominant culture. Democracy as Public Deliberation indicates that democracy often comes in small packages--and in that very fact, it tests the actual ambitions and standards of the macro-state. This is an especially powerful volume for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of third world structures.

Author : Barry Hoffmaster,Cliff Hooker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262549752

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Re-Reasoning Ethics by Barry Hoffmaster,Cliff Hooker Pdf

How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples. In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require. Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more expansive rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the empirical world of science but also to the empirical realities of human lives. Among the many real cases they present is that of how women at risk of having children with genetic conditions decide whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply the formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by genetic counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their lives could be like with an affected child and assess whether they could accept the worst of these scenarios. Hoffmaster and Hooker explain how moral compromise and a liberated, extended, and enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment rational ethical deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design ethical practices, institutions, and policies.

Author : J. Jeffrey Tillman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137490223

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An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation by J. Jeffrey Tillman Pdf

An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition. Drawing on research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social theory, and dual process cognitive theory and on the work of William James, this book develops a theory of moral cognition which provides a major role for aesthetic sensibilities and upon this theory develops a robust model of moral deliberation. This model portrays moral deliberation as a back and forth movement between intuitive and analytic cognitions, which constructs narrative scenarios and then assesses and revises them according to aesthetic sensibilities.

Author : Shawn W. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230591080

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Deliberation, Participation and Democracy by Shawn W. Rosenberg Pdf

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholars in the US and Europe to consider the issue. Four of the leading philosophers of deliberative democracy contribute their commentaries on the groundbreaking empirical research.

Author : Adolf G. Gundersen
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0299144844

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The Environmental Promise of Democratic Deliberation by Adolf G. Gundersen Pdf

Develops an environmental-political theory by combining political theory and environmental ethics, and argues that political deliberation enhances environmental rationality. Based on in- depth interviews with 46 carefully selected US citizens, discusses the direction of democracy as an ecological question, why people want environmental protection and are willing to enter into political dialogue about it, and methods of accelerating and expanding environmentalism. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Sobel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191021268

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From Valuing to Value by David Sobel Pdf

Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the discussion. From Valuing to Value, written by an influential former critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink from acknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine subjectivism. In this volume the fundamental commitments of subjectivism are clarified and revealed to be rather plausible and well-motivated, while the most influential criticisms of subjectivism are straightforwardly addressed and found wanting.