Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity
- ISBN-10
- 0195080122
- ISBN-13
- 9780195080124
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Susan L. Hurley
Description
This provocative study revives a classical idea about rationality by developing analogies between the structure of personality and the structure of society in the context of contemporary work in the philosophy of mind, ehtics, decision theory, and social choice theory.
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