Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Problems of Decision under Conditions of Certainty
Nicholas Rescher, Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

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Abstract:  Even without outcome-uncertainty rational decision faces problems where choices among objects of multiaspectival positivity are involved. The paper will consider the nature of these issues and will argue that a resort to some purely intuitive appraisals is a requisite for the rational resolution of such issues.