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Hard Choices - Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict (Paperback, Revised)
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Hard Choices - Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict (Paperback, Revised)
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It is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to
juggle competing values, and that no choice will maximise
satisfaction of them all. However, the prevailing account of these
cases assumes that there is always a single ranking of the agent's
values, and therefore no unresolvable conflict between them. Isaac
Levi denies this assumption, arguing that agents often must choose
without having balanced their different values and that to be
rational, an act does not have to be optimal, only what Levi terms
'admissible'. This book explores the consequences of denying the
assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under
unresolved conflict. Professor Levi discusses conflicts of value in
several domains - those arising in moral dilemmas, the drawing of
scientific inferences, decisions taken under uncertainty, and in
social choice. In each of these he adapts his theoretical
framework, showing how conflict may often be reduced though not
always altogether eliminated.
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