The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought

by Isaac Levi

Overview

Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the areas of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. This collection of essays presents his original and influential ideas about rational choice and belief. A wide range of topics is covered, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and the tolerance of opinions. This major collection will be of interest to a wide range of philosophers in epistemology, logic, and philosophy of science, as well as economists, decision theorists, and statisticians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521576017
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/13/1997
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

1. Rationality and commitment; 2. Rationality, prediction and autonomous choice; 3. The logic of full belief; 4. Consequentialism and sequential choice; 5. Prediction, deliberation and correlated equilibrium; 6. On indeterminate probabilities; 7. Consensus as shared agreement and outcome of inquiry; 8. Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy; 9. Pareto unanimity and consensus; 10. The paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg; 11. Conflict and inquiry; 12. The ethics of controversy.