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Why Rationality May Be a Consequence of Hume's Theory of Choice

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005

Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible … rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …

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Creative rationality and design education: Towards a pedagogy of adventure

Forest, Joelle; Faucheux, Michel - HAL - 2009

science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality (the “creative rationality”). Integrating this kind of … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …

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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way...

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A Humean Theory of Choice of which Rationality May Be One Consequence

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005

not seem to have given any evidence which would favour what we nowadays consider as the kind of rationality involved in …

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Cross-talk in economics and neuroscience

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Schoonover, Carl - HAL - 2008

Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...

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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793170

Freedom and Rationality

Salvat, Christophe - HAL - 2008

This paper deals with Rousseau's idea of freedom in terms of rationality and deliberation. It gives support to Berlin …

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Financing early-stage ventures: the role of uncertainty and financial markets in the investment choices of venture capitalists

Nasica, Eric; Dufour, Dominique - HAL - 2009

Our paper sheds light on the reasons for which a rational venture capitalist decides to reallocate his or her portfolio from later to early-stage investment. We explain why, during certain periods, there is a strong correlation between the performance of financial markets and the funds invested...

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The World According to GARP* : Non-parametric Tests of Demand Theory and Rational Behavior

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Gardes, François; Starzec, Christophe - HAL - 2008

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not …

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On Apparent Irrational Behaviors : Interacting Structures and the Mind

Gosselin, Pierre; Lotz, Aïleen; Wambst, Marc - HAL - 2013

We develop a general method to solve models of interactions between multiple and possibly strategic agents. Our model explains apparently irrational or biased behaviors in a person. We argue that these actions could result from several rational structures having different goals. Our main example...

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