Hard Choices: Decision Making Under Unresolved Conflict
Cambridge University Press (1986)
| Abstract | In this book, Isaac Levi denies this assumption, arguing instead that agents often should choose without having balanced the competing values and that rationality does not require that an act be optimal, only that it be what Levi terms 'admissible'. He explains the consequences of denying this assumption, and develops a general approach to decision making under unresolved conflict. He investigates the phenomenon of conflicting values in several areas, in each of which he develops a framework for rational deliberation between options. The bearing of the theory on moral dilemmas, scientific inference, decision making under risk and uncertainty, and theories of social welfare are all considered. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Decision making Moral and ethical aspects Values Conflict (Psychology Social conflict | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1468.5.L48 1986 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521386306 9780521386302 | |||||||||
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