SYMPOSIUM ON RATIONALITY AND COMMITMENT: INTRODUCTION

Symposium on Rationality and Commitment: Introduction

Rationality, Belief and Commitment

Sen on Rationality, Commitment and Preferences

This article discusses Sen’s critique of the behavioral implications of revealed preference theory. Sen proposes the concept of commitment as a way to account for the possibility of counter-preferential choice. More generally, it is part of an argument against the thesis that rationality may be reduced to some criteria of internal consistency of choices. The main purpose of this paper is to sho...

Symposium on scientific literacy: Introduction.

Symposium Introduction

For the interventionalist, intracoronary thrombus remains an important marker for the presence of an acute coronary syndrome as well as a harbinger of potential complications during the percutaneous procedure. Acute complications include myocardial infarction either new and/or recurrent related to coronary embolization, slow coronary flow or acute closure and long term complications include sub...