{"product_id":"hard-choices-decision-making-under-unresolved-conflict-paperback-9780521386302","title":"Hard Choices; Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict (Paperback) 9780521386302","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHard Choices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDecision Making under Unresolved Conflict\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsaac Levi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521386302, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 April 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.362 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a valuable and challenging contribution to choice theory.\"   Ethics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIt is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to juggle competing values, and that no choice will maximise satisfaction of them all. However, the prevailing account of these cases assumes that there is always a single ranking of the agent's values, and therefore no unresolvable conflict between them. Isaac Levi denies this assumption, arguing that agents often must choose without having balanced their different values and that to be rational, an act does not have to be optimal, only what Levi terms 'admissible'. This book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict. Professor Levi discusses conflicts of value in several domains - those arising in moral dilemmas, the drawing of scientific inferences, decisions taken under uncertainty, and in social choice. In each of these he adapts his theoretical framework, showing how conflict may often be reduced though not always altogether eliminated.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Moral struggle\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dilemmas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Values in scientific inquiry\u003cbr\u003e 4. Choice and foreknowledge\u003cbr\u003e 5. Value structures\u003cbr\u003e 6. Values revealed by choices\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncertainty as a source of conflict\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conflict and social agency\u003cbr\u003e 9. Distributing benefits\u003cbr\u003e 10. Utilarianism and conflict\u003cbr\u003e 11. Social choice theory\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conflict and inquiry\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Name index\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy: logic [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: logic\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20logic%20%5BHPL%5D%22\"\u003eHPL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004850622744,"sku":"9780521386302","price":38.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521386302i_ce3bc95d-198f-4dff-9187-d4c9c2fdd28d.jpg?v=1691376179","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hard-choices-decision-making-under-unresolved-conflict-paperback-9780521386302","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}