Reading these essays on habit and Romanticism has put me in mind of the discursive habits – or fixations intellectuals who appear novels Thomas Love Peacock. Here is Mr Flosky, recognisably a version Coleridge, from Nightmare Abbey: Flosky. Tea, late dinners, French Revolution, have played devil, Listless, brought devil into play. […] The Honourable Listless. Revolution. I cannot see connection...

All media have been flooded with news related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top scientists addressing public more frequently than ever before. In addition positive attitudes, there also negative ones. midst of pandemic, information about health systems that cannot respond adequately, a large number deaths, and lack vaccines provoked unwanted reactions, such as fear associated disorders. Bad kept co...

We propose and develop a theory of choice free of concepts such as utility function or preference relation. We replace the primitives used in traditional rational choice theories by similarity function— used to compare any alternative to a reference alternative— and a minimum distance choice function. It is shown that this model can explain the appearance of intransitive choices, which are cent...