Intentions, decisions and rationality

Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • T.A. Boylan
  • R. Gekker
Book title Economics, rational choice and normative philosophy
ISBN
  • 9780415435802
Series Routledge frontiers of political economy, 116
Pages (from-to) 56-72
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We argue that intentions with autonomous consequences pose difficulties that force us to go beyond traditional models of decision making. Of course, this does not mean that all intentions require such extensions. Intentions without autonomous consequences can readily be described in terms of strategies in extensive decision problems. However, as we hope to show, even the incorporation of such 'standard' intentions may form an enrichment of the decision theoretic framework.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at http://www.illc.uva.nl/Publications/ResearchReports/PP-2007-21.text.pdf
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