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25Alchemies of the mind: Rationality and the emotions, Jon Elster. Cambridge university press, 1999, IX + 416 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 17 (1): 121-145. 2001.
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9Spinoza en het Onstaan van de StaatAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 82 252. 1990.
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202Consequentialism and rational choice: Lessons from the Allais paradoxPacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (1). 2008.This paper investigates the relation between consequentialism, as conceived of in moral theory, and standard expected utility theory. I argue that there is a close connection between the two. I show furthermore that consequentialism is not neutral with regard to the values of the agent. Consequentialism, as well as standard expected utility theory, is incompatible with the recognition of considerations that depend on what could have been the case, such as regret and disappointment. I conclude th…Read more
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836Rational self-commitmentIn Fabienne Peter (ed.), rationality and commitment, Oxford University Press Usa. 2007.Abstract: The standard picture of rationality requires that the agent acts so as to realize her most preferred alternative in the light of her own desires and beliefs. However, there are circumstances where such an agent can predict that she will act against her preferences. The story of Ulysses and the Sirens is the paradigmatic example of such cases. In those circumstances the orthodoxy requires the agent to be ‘sophisticated’. That is to say, she should take into account her expected future c…Read more
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