Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations

Edward F. McClennen

Cambridge University Press, May 25, 1990 - Education - 311 pages

In this major contribution to the theory of rational choice 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 argument is to suggest that the theory of rational choice is less determinate than many suppose.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations; Paperback re-issue
• Author: Edward F. McClennen
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0521360471, 9780521360470
• Length: 311 pages
• Subjects: Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Logic; Philosophy / Movements / Humanism