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Contents Acknowledgements page x Introduction: literature and rationality I THEORIES AND QUESTIONS Rationality: some basic issues I 2 Agency, rationality, and literary knowledge II TEXTUAL MODELS 3 Naturalism and the question ofagency 89 4 Agent's rationality 123 5 Plans and irrationality 150 6 Science, reason, and society 179 Coda: 'Der Bau' 205 Notes 210 Bibliography 227 Index IX Acknowledgements Part of the research for the present study was conducted while I enjoyed a year as chercheur etranger at the Centre deRecherche enEPi stemologieAppliquee (CREA), at the EcolePolytechnique, Paris. I thank Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Andre Orlean for their generous support during my stay there. I am also pleased to acknowledge financial assistance received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of the Canadian government. Suggestions and comments made byJon Elster, Thomas Pavel, and an anonymous reader helped me to improve the manuscript. x

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This book explores concepts of rationality drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, in relation to traditions of literary enquiry. The author surveys basic assumptions and questions in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples

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Contents Acknowledgements page x Introduction: literature and rationality I THEORIES AND QUESTIONS Rationality: some basic issues I 2 Agency, rationality, and literary knowledge II TEXTUAL MODELS 3 Naturalism and the question ofagency 89 4 Agent's rationality 123 5 Plans and irrationality 150 6 Science, reason, and society 179 Coda: 'Der Bau' 205 Notes 210 Bibliography 227 Index IX Acknowledgements Part of the research for the present study was conducted while I enjoyed a year as chercheur etranger at the Centre deRecherche enEPi stemologieAppliquee (CREA), at the EcolePolytechnique, Paris. I thank Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Andre Orlean for their generous support during my stay there. I am also pleased to acknowledge financial assistance received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of the Canadian government. Suggestions and comments made byJon Elster, Thomas Pavel, and an anonymous reader helped me to improve the manuscript. x

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This book explores concepts of rationality drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, in relation to traditions of literary enquiry. The author surveys basic assumptions and questions in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples

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