Perplexities
Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
224 pages
978-1-5017-4548-5 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- Cornell University Press
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. -- Cornell University Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4548-5 (9781501745485)
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Max Black
Perplexities
Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity and Other Puzzles
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01/1990
Cornell University Press
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The late Max Black was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Human Letters at Cornell University and President of the International Institute of Philosophy. His other books include Language and Philosophy and The Labyrinth of Language. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- PERPLEXITIES
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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
