Research Catalog

Title

The many futures of a decision / Jay Lampert.

Author

Lampert, Jay, 1957-

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

vii, 332 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Combining two central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Subject

• Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
• Time
• Time perspective
• Future, The
• Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.

Contents

Introduction: what is the temporal reference of a decision? -- Sartre: decisions and the unbound future -- Husserl: decisions and temporal overlap -- Heidegger: the original decision to decide -- Kierkegaard: decisionism in religion. Infinite futures -- Schmitt: decisionism in politics. Sovereign moments. Habermas: steering procedures and the term limits of a decision -- Decision theory: seriality effects on decision -- Branching futures: tense logic and multiple worlds -- Hegel: morality without decision. Derrida: indecision theory -- Deleuze: decision in the empty future. The virtual decision = X.

Call Number

JFD 18-3404

ISBN

• 1350047783
• 9781350047785
• 9781350047792
• 1350047791

OCLC

1005125164

Author

Lampert, Jay, 1957- author.

Title

The many futures of a decision / Jay Lampert.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3404