pleasure is transformed by belief into a relation of desire, which belongs to a non-empty class of relations, among which at …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 …

process, described by means of a decision algorithm that aims to represent Hume's theory of choice. …For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume …) and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757) deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does …

consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of … 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 …

consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of … 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 …

process, described by means of a decision algorithm which aims at representing Hume's theory of choice. …For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume …), and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757), deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does …

happiness. The difficulty comes from the fact that desire does not depend on pleasure as an impression, but on the force of an … idea of pleasure, based upon a belief in the realisation of the correlative impression. Typically, this belief is linked to …'s reactivity to pleasure, and his preference for present (compared with future) pleasures. On the contrary, interest and happiness …

happiness. The difficulty comes from the fact that desire does not depend on pleasure as an impression, but on the force of an … idea of pleasure, based upon a belief in the realisation of the correlative impression. Typically, this belief is linked to …'s reactivity to pleasure, and his preference for present (compared to future) pleasures. On the contrary, interest and happiness do …

. It is shown that both the intertemporal structure of the problem and the role that Hume granted to the ‘calm passion …Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility …