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  1. Picoeconomics.George Ainslie - 1992 - Behavior and Philosophy 20:89-94.
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  • From wishes to action: The dead ends and short cuts on the long way to action.Heinz Heckhausen & Julius Kuhl - 1985 - In Michael Frese & John Sabini (eds.), Goal directed behavior: the concept of action in psychology. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates. pp. 10--134.
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  • Aristotle's Psychology.Daniel N. Robinson - 1882 - Columbia University Press. Edited by Edwin Wallace.
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  • Rationality: a philosophical inquiry into the nature and the rationale of reason.Nicholas Rescher - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Contending that only a normative theory of rationality can be adequate to the complexities of the subject, this book explains and defends the view that rationality consists of the intelligent pursuit of appropriate objectives. Rescher considers the mechanics, rationale, and rewards of reason, and argues that social scientists who want to present a theory of rationality while avoiding the vexing complexities of normative deliberations must amend their perspective of the rational enterprise.
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  • Well-being: its meaning, measurement, and moral importance.James Griffin - 1986 - Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press.
    "Well-being," "welfare," "utility," and "quality of life," all closely related concepts, are at the center of morality, politics, law, and economics. Griffin's book, while primarily a volume of moral philosophy, is relevant to all of these subjects. Griffin offers answers to three central questions about well-being: what is the best way to understand it, can it be measured, and where should it fit in moral and political thought. With its breadth of investigation and depth of insight, this work holds significance (...)
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  • Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions.Robert H. Frank - 1988 - Norton.
    In this book, I make use of an idea from economics to suggest how noble human tendencies might not only have survived the ruthless pressures of the material world, but actually have been nurtured by them.
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  • Reasons and Persons.Derek Parfit - 1984 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interersts, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions (...)
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  • Identity: Youth and Crisis.E. H. ERIKSON - 1968
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  • Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations.Edward Francis McClennen - 1990 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
    This is a major contribution to the theory of rational choice which will be of particular interest to philosophers and economists. The author sets out the foundations of rational choice, and then sketches a dynamic choice framework in which principles of ordering and independence follow from a number of apparently plausible conditions. However, there is potential conflict among these conditions, and when they are weakened to avoid it the usual foundations of rational choice no longer prevail. The thrust of the (...)
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  • The Evolution of Cooperation.Robert M. Axelrod - 1984 - Basic Books.
    The 'Evolution of Cooperation' addresses a simple yet age-old question; If living things evolve through competition, how can cooperation ever emerge? Despite the abundant evidence of cooperation all around us, there existed no purely naturalistic answer to this question until 1979, when Robert Axelrod famously ran a computer tournament featuring a standard game-theory exercise called The Prisoner's Dilemma. To everyone's surprise, the program that won the tournament, named Tit for Tat, was not only the simplest but the most "cooperative" entrant. (...)
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  • (1 other version)Sour grapes: studies in the subversion of rationality.Jon Elster - 1983 - Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme.
    Sour Grapes aims to subvert orthodox theories of rational choice through the study of forms of irrationality. Dr Elster begins with an analysis of the notation of rationality, to provide the background and terms for the subsequent discussions, which cover irrational behaviour, irrational desires and irrational belief. These essays continue and complement the arguments of Jon Elster's earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens. That was published to wide acclaim, and Dr Elster shows the same versatility here in drawing on philosophy, (...)
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  • Machiavelli and the history of prudence.Eugene Garver - 1987 - Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
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  • Aristotle's theory of the will.Anthony Kenny - 1979 - New Haven: Yale University Press.
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  • Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action.David Charles - 1984 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
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  • What reason demands.Rüdiger Bittner - 1989 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Why should we act morally? What justification is to be found in moral demands? This lucid, pithy, and eminently readable book examines the arguments in favor of the claims of moral demands to be found in contemporary ethical theory, arguments deriving from Kant's attempt to provide a foundation for morality.
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  • Life as fiction.Kevin Murray - 1985 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 15 (2):173–187.
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  • Morality within the limits of reason.Russell Hardin - 1988 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able ...
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  • Research on self-control: An integrating framework.A. W. Logue - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (4):665-679.
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  • Aristotle on Emotion.J. Dybikowski & W. W. Fortenbaugh - 1976 - Philosophical Quarterly 26 (102):102.
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  • Reason in Human Affairs.Herbert A. Simon - 1983 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    What can reason do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our species. In the first two chapters, the author explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major (...)
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  • A theory of action identification.Robin R. Vallacher - 1985 - Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. Edited by Daniel M. Wegner.
    'With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement.
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  • Prudence.J. D. Mabbott - 1962 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 36 (1):51-76.
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  • Rational Preferences.Martin Hollis - 1983 - Philosophical Forum 14 (3):246.
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