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The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals.

This book collects together essays from twenty-five years of Hollis's work on rationality and social action.

Economics is probably the most subtle, precise and powerful of the social sciences and its theories have deep philosophical import. Yet the dominant alliance between economics and philosophy has long been cheerfully simple. This is the textbook alliance of neo-Classicism and Positivism, so crucial to the defence of orthodox economics against by now familiar objections. This is an unusual book and a deliberately controversial one. The authors c...

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In a revised and updated edition of a classic introductory text, Martin Hollis leads readers vividly through the age-old philosophical questions of free choice and human nature, appearance and reality, and reason and experience to newer ones of rationality and morality, other minds and inner selves, and relation between the natural and human worlds. 192 pp.

This classic book is Martin Hollis's influential rationalist account and exploration of human action and identity.

This classic book is Martin Hollis's influential rationalist account and exploration of human action and identity.

An introduction to the philosophy of social science from a well-known author.

Does trust grow fragile when people are too rational or when they are not rational enough? Both thoughts are plausible. Which is right depends on how we define "reason." Martin Hollis' elegant and distinctive study argues for an interpretation of "reason" as putting the common good before one's own. This offers a universal reciprocity to people who then choose what reason shall mean for them.

This book is a philosophers' attempt to bring together ideas put forward by economist, sociologist and political theorists. The author begins by exploring the economist's assumption that action is rational if it helps to achieve the agent's goals as efficiently as possible.

Does trust grow fragile when people are too rational or when they are not rational enough? Both thoughts are plausible. Which is right depends on how we define "reason." Martin Hollis' elegant and distinctive study argues for an interpretation of "reason" as putting the common good before one's own. This offers a universal reciprocity to people who then choose what reason shall mean for them.

Das Thema meiner Überlegungen ist die Rationalität als Schlüsselbegriff zum Verständnis des sozialen Handelns. Die erste Vorlesung bietet einen Rahmen zur Beurteilung der Frage, ob die Analyse »von oben nach unten« oder besser »von unten nach oben« voranschreiten sollte und ob es uns, um mit Max Weber zu reden, um Erklären oder Verstehen gehen sollte. Ausgehend vom Teufelspakt Fausts bestreitet die zweite Vorlesung den Anspruch der Zweckration...