Rationality As Conformity

Synthese 144 (2):249-285 (2005)
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Abstract

We argue in favour of identifying one aspect of rational choice with the tendency to conform to the choice you expect another like-minded, but non-communicating, agent to make and study this idea in the very basic case where the choice is from a non-empty subset K of 2 A and no further structure or knowledge of A is assumed.

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Hykel Hosni
Università degli Studi di Milano
Jeffrey Paris
University of Manchester

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