Having Reasons: An Essay on Rationality and Sociality

✍ Scribed by Frederic Schick

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 169
Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 587
Edition: Course Book
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This important contribution to choice theory examines two theories of motivation and two kinds of explanation of behavior that they support.

Originally published in 1984.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Prospectus
2. Some Basics
3. Rationality
4. Cooperation
5. Sociality
6. Commitment
REFERENCES
INDEX

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