Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason

• Main Author: Nida-Rümelin, Julian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 52
• Subjects: Philosophy and social sciences.; Analysis (Philosophy).; Philosophy.; Theory (Philosophy).; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Analytic Philosophy.; Philosophical Methodology.

In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues that consequentialism as a general theory of rational action fails and that this does not force us into the dichotomy teleology vs deontology. The un...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• Chapter1. Acting on Beliefs
• Chapter2. Structures of Agency
• Chapter3. Reasons for Action
• Chapter4. Cooperation
• Chapter5. Communication
• Chapter6. Structural Intentions
• Chapter7. Weakness of Will
• Chapter8. Structural Coherence.