The Many Futures of a Decision

Associate Professor Jay Lampert (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-04779-2 (ISBN)

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Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time.

When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time.

Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures.

Jay Lampert is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. His previous books include Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time (Continuum, 2012) and Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History (Continuum, 2006).

Introduction to Concepts – What is the temporal referent of a decision?

1. Sartre – Can a decision be binding on the future? The future without continuity

2. Husserl – Decision-options and temporal overlap

3. Heidegger – The original decision to decide. Continuity without a future

4. Kierkegaard – Decision as promise: Decisionism in religion. Plus: Kant’s moral postulate of hope and Pascal’s wager of infinite time

5. Schmitt – Decisionism in politics: the sovereign moment and its authoritarian follow-up

6. Habermas – Steering procedures and the term limits of a decision

7. Decision-Theory – Economics, seriality, and retrospective effects

8. Branching Futures in Tense Logic; Possible worlds, possible futures, alternative worlds

9. Derrida – Indecision-theory and the future to-come

10. Deleuze – Decision in the future = X

Conclusion — Many overlapping real futures
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	438 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-04779-1 / 1350047791
ISBN-13	978-1-350-04779-2 / 9781350047792
Zustand	Neuware