This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between
divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science,
and literary studies. Livingston provides a broad survey of the
basic assumptions and questions associated with concepts of
rationality in philosophical accounts of action, in decision
theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples of
the ways in which rationality is involved in the writing and
reading of literary works, ranging from Icelandic sagas to Beckett,
Dreiser, Lem, Poe and Zola. Topics examined include the role of
concepts of desire, intention, and planning in action explanations,
the relation between cognition and motivation, the rationality of
desire, atomic versus agential perspectives on rationality, the
rationality of groups and institutions, and the question of the
rationality of science.
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