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The Multiple self / edited by Jon Elster. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. - ix, 269 p. ; 23 cm. - Studies in rationality and social change . - Studies in rationality and social change. .

"Published in collaboration with Maison des sciences de l'homme."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jon Elster -- Self-deception and the voter's illusion / George A. Quattrone, Amos Tversky -- The goals and strategies of self-deception / David Pears -- Deception and division / Donald Davidson -- Deception and self-deception in Stendhal / Jon Elster -- Self-deception, akrasia and irrationality / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty -- Beyond microeconomics. Conflict among interests in a multiple self as a determinant of value / George Ainslie -- The mind as a consuming organ / Thomas Schelling -- Goethe's Faust, Arrow's Possibility Theorem and the individual decision-taker / Ian Steedman, Ulrich Krause -- The Buddhist theory of 'no-self' / Serge-Christophe Kolm.

ISBN: 0521260337 9780521260336 0521346835 9780521346832

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Self (Philosophy)
Self-deception.
Decision making.

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 302.5 E49M