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Ulysses unbound : = studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ulysses unbound :/ Jon Elster.
Reminder of title:	studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints /
Author:	Elster, Jon,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Rationalism - Psychological aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625008
ISBN:	9780511625008 (ebook)

Ulysses unbound : = studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints /
Elster, Jon,1940-

Ulysses unbound :studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints /Jon Elster. - 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book, though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.

ISBN: 9780511625008 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802245
Rationalism
--Psychological aspects.

LC Class. No.: BF441 / .E45 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 128/.4

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