Perplexities : Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles / Max Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Max, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 201 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Shortly before his death in 1988, Max Black brought together for this collection previously published major essays on ten intriguing questions concerning ordinary language, rational choice, and literature.Individual chapters explore such fundamental problems as the puzzles posed by meaning and verification; what metaphor is and how metaphors work; the ambiguities and limits of rationality; the usefulness of decision theory to people who wish to make intelligent choices; some questions concerning Bayesian decision theory; the task of demystifying space; and the radical ambiguity of poetry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Publisher's Note

Introduction: The Articulation of Concepts

MEANING AND VERIFICATION

1. Some Puzzles about Meaning

2. Verificationism Revisited: A Conversation

METAPHOR

3. More about Metaphor

4. How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson

RATIONALITY

5. Ambiguities of Rationality

6. The "Prisoner's Dilemma" and the Limits of Rationality

CHOICE THEORY

7. Making Intelligent Choices: How Useful Is Decision Theory?

8. Some Questions about Bayesian Decision Theory

APPLICATIONS

9. On Demystifying Space

10. The Radical Ambiguity of a Poem

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4548-4

OCLC:

1114816543