| Reason in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science Contributor(s): Holis, Martin (Author), Hollis, Martin (Author), Martin, Hollis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521447798 ISBN-13: 9780521447799 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: Did Adam and Eve act rationally in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree? That can seem to depend solely on whether they had found the best means to their ends, in the spirit of the "economic" theories of rationality. In these essays, culled in revised form from twenty-five years' work, Martin Hollis argues that social action cannot be understood by viewing human beings as abstract individuals with preferences in search of satisfaction, or by divorcing practical reason from questions of the rationality of norms, principles, practices and ends. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 300.1 |
| LCCN: 95008138 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.36" W x 8.39" (0.76 lbs) 296 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Did Adam and Eve act rationally in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree? That can seem to depend solely on whether they had found the best means to their ends, in the spirit of the economic theories of rationality. In these essays, culled in revised form from twenty-five years' work, Martin Hollis argues that social action cannot be understood by viewing human beings as abstract individuals with preferences in search of satisfaction, or by divorcing practical reason from questions of the rationality of norms, principles, practices and ends. |