Nozick The Nature of Rationality

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2083-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Nozick, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I How to Do Things with Principles 3

Intellectual Functions 3

Interpersonal Functions 9

Personal Functions 12

Overcoming Temptation 14

Sunk Costs 21

Symbolic Utility 26

Teleological Devices 35

II Decision-Value 41

Newcomb's Problem 41

Prisoner's Dilemma 50

Finer Distinctions: Consequences and Goals 59

III Rational Belief 64

Cognitive Goals 67

Responsiveness to Reasons 71

Rules of Rationality 75

Belief 93

Bias 100

IV Evolutionary Reasons 107

Reasons and Facts 107

Fitness and Function 114

Rationality's Function 119

V Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits 133

Is Instrumental Rationality Enough? 133

Rational Preferences 139

Testability, Interpretation, and Conditionalization 151

Philosophical Heuristics 163

Rationality's Imagination 172

Notes 183

Subject Index 219

Index of Names 224

Über Autor(innen)

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.