Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory?

In Alan Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 425–449 (2005)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Rational Decisions as an Ideal Rational Decision Making? Assumptions and Difficulties: Preferences, Outcome Spaces, and Probabilities in the World Reasons without Decisions What Kinds of Reasons? The Failure of RCT as a Unifying Principle The Failures of RCT and Rethinking Rationality.

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9780470996904   9781405109093

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10.1002/9780470996904.ch23

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