The covenant of reason : rationality and the commitments of thought /

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Author / Creator:Levi, Isaac, 1930-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Description:xiv, 258 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2770451
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ISBN:0521572886 (hardcover)
0521576016 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Rationality and commitment
  • 2. Rationality, prediction and autonomous choice
  • 3. The logic of full belief
  • 4. Consequentialism and sequential choice
  • 5. Prediction, deliberation and correlated equilibrium
  • 6. On indeterminate probabilities
  • 7. Consensus as shared agreement and outcome of inquiry
  • 8. Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy
  • 9. Pareto unanimity and consensus
  • 10. The paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg
  • 11. Conflict and inquiry
  • 12. The ethics of controversy