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Reasonable Doubts about Rational Choice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

David Houghton
David Houghton
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Extract

If the unexamined life is not worth living, then we should cast the light of reason upon it. That is an old idea. It has lately been given a new direction by hope that the theory of rational choice can shed a suitable light.

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Philosophy , Volume 70 , Issue 271 , January 1995 , pp. 53 - 68
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1995

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1 R., Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York: Basic, 1974), pp.42–5.Google Scholar

2 Shaughnessy, B. O′, ‘Observation and the Will’, The Journal of Philosophy 60, No. 14 (July 1963), pp. 380–1CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 I am much indebted to Professor J. M. Hollis for help in writing this paper.