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The Multiple self / edited by Jon Elster.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rationality and social changePublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.Description: ix, 269 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521260337
  • 9780521260336
  • 0521346835
  • 9780521346832
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 302.5 E49M
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 302.5 E49M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 064073

"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.

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