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Sensible decisions : issues of rational decision in personal choice and public policy

Title
Sensible decisions : issues of rational decision in personal choice and public policy / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003.

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Description
ix, 147 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Decision making
  • Political planning
  • Decision Making
  • decision making
  • Entscheidung
  • Politische Entscheidung
  • Rationalität
  • Rationaliteit
  • Besluitvorming
  • Entscheidung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143) and index.
Contents
Homo optans : on the human condition and the burden of choice -- Why be rational? (on the rationale of rationality) -- Is reasoning about values viciously circular? -- Deliberative conservatism -- Predictive incapacity and rational decision -- Dismissing extremely remote possibilities -- Nomic hierarchies and problems of relativism -- Technology, complexity, and social decision -- Is consensus required for a rational social order? -- Risking democracy (some reflections on contemporary problems of political decision) -- Collective responsibility.
ISBN
  • 0742514900
  • 9780742514904
LCCN
2003001014
OCLC
  • ocm51543892
  • 51543892
  • SCSB-9478908
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library