Commitment and Goals

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2013Author
Peacock, Mark
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http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-417Abstract
In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch's recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch's essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen's notion of `commitment' which makes committed choices both uncontroversial and quotidian. This interpretation contrasts with those which see some of Sen's pronouncements on commitment to be obviously false, counterintuitive or psychologically impossible.
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Rationality, markets, and morals: RMM 4 (2013), 221-226