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The author presents a number of strategies for making decisions based on desires or values which are incompatible or which conflict with one another in various ways. Cases discussed include conflicts of first and second order desires, conflicts between desires for present and for future ends, problems deriving from anticipated changes of desire, risk-taking problems, and coordination problems. One central claim of the book is that the same dilemma-managing strategies can be applied to all of these. The book also argues that many of the characteristics of moral dilemmas appear in non-moral decision-making. The relations between these strategies and utility-maximizing decision rules are subtle, and are explored throughout the book. To some extent the strategies apply to cases which are too complicated for utility-maximization to apply. Some of them also apply to the early stages of decision-making where utility-maximization does not enter, for example, in selecting a list of options for serious consideration. In some tidy cases, though, the strategies give different recommendations. This book is meant to have both a theoretical and a practical appeal, deriving from our need for ways

Who reads Disasters and Dilemmas : Strategies for Real-Life Decision Making?

Author

Adam Morton

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781119468028

Category

psychology

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25