Robert Nozick 53718

The Nature of Rationality

Princeton University Press, 1993. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 226. Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every thoughtful person. Here Nozick continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience. In the lively and accessible style that his readers have come to expect, he offers a bold theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity's "specialness". What are principles for? asks Nozick. We could act simply on whim, or maximize our self-interest and recommend that others do the same. As Nozick explores rationality of decision and rationality of belief, he shows how principles actually function in our day-to-day thinking and in our efforts to live peacefully and productively with one another. In Nozick's view, misconceptions of rationality have resulted in many intractable philosophical problems. For example, the Kantian attempt to make principled behavior the sole ultimate standard of conduct extends rationality beyond its bounds. In this provocative volume, Nozick reformulates current decision theory to include the symbolic meaning of actions in areas from controlling impulses to fighting society's war against drugs. The author proposes a new rule of rational decision, "maximizing decision-value", which is a weighted sum of causal, evidential, and symbolic utility. In a particularly fascinating section of the book he traces the implications of this rule for the famous Prisoner's Dilemma and for Newcomb's Problem. Rationality of belief, according to Nozick, involves two aspects: support by reasons that make the belief credible, andgeneration by a process that reliably produces true beliefs. A new evolutionary account explains how some factual connections are instilled in us as seemingly self-evident, thus reversing the direction of Kant's "Copernican Revolution". Proposing a theory of rational belief that includes both the intellectual credibility of the belief and the practical consequences of believing it, Nozick also provides a fresh resolution of the "lottery paradox". Finally, Nozick explores the scope and limits of instrumental rationality, or the effective and efficient pursuit of given goals, and suggests some new conditions on the rationality of goals. Throughout, the book combines daring speculations with detailed investigations to portray the nature and status of rationality and the essential role that imagination plays in this singular human aptitude. ISBN: 9780691074245. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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NOZICK, Robert

Anarchie, Etat et utopie.

Trad. de l'anglais par E. d'Auzac de Lamartine révisée par P.-E. Dauzat. Presses Universitaires de France - PUF ("Libre Echange"), Paris, 1988, in-8, br., couv. à rabats, 442 p. E.O. de cette trad. Bel ex. non lu

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Nozick, Robert

Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1974, First British ed., first pr. Light brown cloth, spine lettering metallic green, 367pp, notes, bibliogr., index. Top edge red, others uncut. Rare. Spine sl. bleached, rear more so. No dam., sm. init. on title page, otherw. no writing. gram. Dik boek.

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Nozick, Robert.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

London : Blackwell, c1974. Reprint. Paperback. xvi,367p. Index. Pencil markings. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780631197805.

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Nozick, Robert.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

New York : Basic Books, c1974. Reprint. Paperback. xvi,367 pp. Index. (Harper Torchbooks, TB 538). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780465097203.

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Robert Nozick

The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 308p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is lightly worn at the corners and spine ends, but otherwise intact. Very Good .

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Nozick, Robert

The Nature of Rationality.

Princeton, Princeton U.P., 1993, first edition, cloth with dustjacket, 226 p. Excellent copy.

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Nozick, Robert.

The nature of rationality.

Princeton : Princeton University Press,1993. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xvi,226 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780691074245.

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Robert Nozick

The Nature of Rationality

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. 0691074240. Near fine in wrappers with slight fading. Uncorrected proof. Fine.

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Nozick, Robert

Philosophical Explanations

Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. 8th Printing. xii, 764p. stiff printed wrappers. .

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Nozick, Robert

Philosophical Explanations

Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. xii, 764p. dj. .

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NOZICK, ROBERT

Philosophical Explanations

Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1981. (ISBN: 0198246722). Hardcover. Used, Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, from the library of Tony Honore and bearing his signature to FEP and notes to rear paste down. Jacket is scored and worn at extremities, including some small tears. Boards are bumped at rear upper. Pages clean. AD. Very Good.

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NOZICK, ROBERT

Philosophical Explanations

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First Edition; First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). ISBN: 0198246722. 764 pages. Dust jacket in plastic protective cover. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers, corners and dust jacket. Remnants of sticky tape on endpapers. ; Ex-Library; Octavo (standard book size). Good in Good dust jacket .

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NOZICK, [Robert]. (Jeffrey Paul, edita]

Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia / Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Paul

First published in Great Britain.- Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Publisher Ltd., 1982.- XI,418 p.; 4º menor (21,3 x 13,7 cm); Cartulina Ed. ilustrada.* Cubiertas algo sucias, interior en buen estado. HISTORIA Y POLÍTICA DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XXI E HISTORIAS GENERALES EXTRANJERAS Book in english ISBN: 0631129774

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