Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints (Hardback)
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Short Description for Ulysses Unbound This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 13 April 2000
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600 | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780521662130 ISBN 10: 0521662133
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Full description for Ulysses Unbound
Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book, though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.
