The Covenant of Reason

Columbia University's Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the area of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. This collection of essays presents his original and influential ideas about rational choice and belief. It covers a wide range of topics, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and the tolerance of opinions.

1. Rationality and commitment; 2. Rationality, prediction and autonomous choice; 3. The logic of full belief; 4. Consequentialism and sequential choice; 5. Prediction, deliberation and correlated equilibrium; 6. On indeterminate probabilities; 7. Consensus as shared agreement and outcome of inquiry; 8. Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy; 9. Pareto unanimity and consensus; 10. The paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg; 11. Conflict and inquiry; 12. The ethics of controversy.