The Many Futures of a Decision

Associate Professor Jay Lampert (Duquesne University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
28 June 2018

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy

Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time.

When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future.

But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future.

We project a variety of virtual futures.

We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time.

Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures.

By: Associate Professor Jay Lampert (Duquesne University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9781350047785
ISBN 10: 1350047783
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 28 June 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay Lampert is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. His previous books include Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time (Continuum, 2012) and Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History (Continuum, 2006).

Reviews for The Many Futures of a Decision

Jay Lampert has written a provocative book on the temporality of decisions. He intertwines the book's innovative insight with a masterly and clear treatment of major continental and analytic thinkers as well as with discussions of temporal logic, decision theory, quantum physics, and the Chinese game of Go. Lampert also considers the vital implications of his thesis for ethical responsibility, especially for an age in which fundamentalisms strive to crowd out more judicious and imaginative thought. It's a must read for scholars and theoreticians working on the relation between decision and time and will be of great interest to those concerned more generally with contemporary continental philosophy. -- Fred Evans, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA