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Act utilitarianism
Ad hoc hypothesis
Author_Robert Nozick
Availability heuristic
Bayesian
Bayesian probability
Calculation
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Causal decision theory
Causality
Certainty effect
Consideration
Contextualism
Credibility
Critical thinking
Decision theory
Decision-making
Disposition
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Equanimity
Ethical decision
Explanation
Explanatory power
Face validity
Heuristic
Heuristics in judgment and decision-making
Holism
Hypothesis
Individualism
Inductive reasoning
Inference
Insight
Instrumental rationality
Intelligibility (philosophy)
Law of effect
Logic
Logical consequence
Methodological individualism
Moral luck
Morality
Mutual intelligibility
Normative
Opportunism
Pareto efficiency
Potentiality and actuality
Practical reason
Pragmatism
Precedent
Prediction
Principle
Principle of rationality
Probability
Rational agent
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Reality
Reason
Received view
Reflective equilibrium
Rule utilitarianism
Self-consciousness
Self-evidence
Self-image
Testability
The Idea of Justice
Theory
Thought
Truth
Utilitarianism
Utility
Value (ethics)
Value judgment
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020969
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every thoughtful person. Here Nozick continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience. In the lively and accessible style that his readers have come to expect, he offers a bold theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity's "specialness." What are principles for? asks Nozick. We could act simply on whim, or maximize our self-interest and recommend that others do the same. As Nozick explores rationality of decision and rationality of belief, he shows how principles actually function in our day-to-day thinking and in our efforts to live peacefully and productively with each other. Throughout, the book combines daring speculations with detailed investigations to portray the nature and status of rationality and the essential role that imagination plays in this singular human aptitude.
Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Among his works are Philosophical Explanations and The Examined Life. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia won the National Book Award in 1975.
