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Epistemology of Decision [electronic resource] : Rational Choice, Neuroscience and Biological Approaches / by Mario Graziano.

By: Graziano, Mario [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy: Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XVII, 94 p. 4 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400754287.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Genetic epistemology | Biology -- Philosophy | Philosophy of mind | Science -- Philosophy | Philosophy | Philosophy of Science | Philosophy of Mind | Epistemology | Philosophy of BiologyDDC classification: 501 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction.- Part 1 Rationality and neuroeconomics -- 1. Neoclassical economics and utilities -- 2. Experimental economics -- 3. Neuroeconomics and causality -- 4. Doubts, feasibility and future of neuroeconomics.- Part 2 Biological approaches -- 1. The Biology and the economy -- 2. Economic progress and evolutionism -- 3. The computational methods and the engineering approach 4. Complexity.- Part 3 -- 1. Game theory and economic decisions -- 2. Game theory and neuroscience  3. The role of social cognition.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book  carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach  including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents the analysis of causality here seen not from the formal point of view,  but from the "embodied" point of view.
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Preface -- Introduction.- Part 1 Rationality and neuroeconomics -- 1. Neoclassical economics and utilities -- 2. Experimental economics -- 3. Neuroeconomics and causality -- 4. Doubts, feasibility and future of neuroeconomics.- Part 2 Biological approaches -- 1. The Biology and the economy -- 2. Economic progress and evolutionism -- 3. The computational methods and the engineering approach 4. Complexity.- Part 3 -- 1. Game theory and economic decisions -- 2. Game theory and neuroscience  3. The role of social cognition.

This book  carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach  including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents the analysis of causality here seen not from the formal point of view,  but from the "embodied" point of view.

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