Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

This volume of essays is very much a sequel to the two earlier collections by Jon Elster, Ulysses and the Sirens and Sour Grapes. His topic is rationality--its scope, its limitations, and its failures. Elster considers rational responses to the insufficiency of reason itself and to the indeterminacies in deploying rational choice theory, and discusses the irrationality of not seeing when, where, and what these are. A key essay that gives the collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521376084
• ISBN13: 9780521376082
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"