Rationality, Rules, and Structure

by Julian Nida-Rhumelin

It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? What bearing does this have on the theory of practical rationality? These issues can only be discussed within an interdisciplinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792363264
• ISBN13: 9780792363262
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"