Multiple Self

Name: Multiple Self
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ISBN: 9780521346832

ISBN-10: 0521346835

ISBN-13: 9780521346832

Edition: 1986

Authors: Jon. Elster, Gudmund Hernes, Gudmund Hernes

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The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided--as a "multiple self." The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual decision-making and behavior. Is the hypothesis of a multiple self required to deal with the problems of self-deception and weakness of will; and can the conceptual tools developed in the study of interpersonal conflict be applied to the analysis of intra-personal struggle? The essays, by a number of leading philosophers, psychologists, and economists, were all commissioned for this volume.

Book details

List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/31/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalitï¿½ et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective .



Preface


Notes on contributors


Introduction




Self-deception and the voter's illusion




The goals and strategies of self-deception




Deception and division




Deception and self-deception in Stendhal




Self-deception, akrasia and irrationality




Beyond microeconomics. Conflict among interests in a multiple self as a determinant of value




The mind as a consuming organ




Goethe's Faust, Arrow's Possibility Theorem and the individual decision-taker




The Buddhist theory of 'no-self'



Index of names