Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1232597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna Ullmann-Margalit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ullmann-Margalit |
| SIGNATURE | ULLMANN-MARGALIT E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Invisible-Hand Explanations
Invisible-hand explanations suggest that many social practices are a product of human action, but not human design. In coming to terms with such explanations, it is essential to distinguish between explanations of the emergence of practices and explanations of the persistence of practices. The kind of invisible-hand explanation that accounts for the emergence of practices might turn out to be altogether different from the kind that accounts for t…
The Case of the Camera in the Kitchen
In the summer of 2007, a member of the Rationality Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem took it upon himself to install a closed-circuit TV camera in the Center’s kitchen. An email explained that the camera was installed in an effort to solve the problem of cleanness in the kitchen. The camera was removed a week later: within this week, the members of the Center exchanged close to 120 emails among themselves, expressing their opinions for…
Considerateness
Focusing on the extreme poles of the spectrum of human relationships, this chapter argues that considerateness is the foundation upon which our relationships are to be organized in both the thin, anonymous context of the public space and the thick, intimate context of the family. The first part of the paper, sections I–III, explores the idea that considerateness is the minimum that we owe to one another in the public space. By acting consideratel…
Normal Rationality
How do people proceed when they cannot act on the basis of reasons, or project likely consequences? How is social order possible? Ullmann-Margalit demonstrates that people have identifiable strategies for making difficult decisions, whether the question is small (what to buy at a supermarket) or big (whether to transform one’s life in some large-scale way). She also shows that social dilemmas are solved by norms; that invisible-hand explanations …
Difficult Choices
Edna Ullmann-Margalit Difficult Choices: To Agonize or Not to Agonize? “AGONY OF DOUBT” “W H AT A DIFFICULT CHOICE,” A FRIEND SMILINGLY COMMENTS AS SHE faces the well-endowed dessert counter at a party.' Having heard the traf fic report on the radio in the morning, I may find it difficult to choose which route to take, as I learn that all routes to my destination are likely to be congested. A relative tells me that the formal act of signing the …
Family Fairness
Edna Ullmann-Margalit Family Fairness THIS PAPER IS THE LAST PART OF A THREE-PART PROJECT. THE LARGER picture is important for the proper framing of the present paper. Here then is an abstract of the three-part paper, which is about considerateness. Focusing on two extreme poles of the spectrum of human rela tionships, the paper argues that considerateness is the foundation upon which relationships are to be organized in both the thin anony mou…
Reasoning practically
"When we act, our reason is slave to our passions, said Hume. And the two questions, according to Kant, that a philosopher should address are, What can I know? and What am I to do? The essays collected by editor Edna Ullmann-Margalit in Reasoning Practically address the often elusive link between reason, or theory, and practice, or action. With new contributions from leading philosophers and legal and political theorists, this star-studded volume…
Holding true and holding as true
The Emergence of Norms
Ullmann-Margalit's main thesis is that certain familiar types of normsfor example, of honor, of driving, and of private property -can be rationally reconstructed as solutions that emerge from three problems in game theory:(1) Prisoner's Dilemma-type situations; (2) Coordination situations; and (3) Inequality (or partiality) situations respectively.I must admit at the outset that I am not sure of having represented her main thesis accurately: In s…
The Emergence of Norms
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Emergence of Norms. By Edna Ullmann-Margalit. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1977. Pp. 206. Price £8.00) Lanninq Sowden Lanninq Sowden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 122, January 1981, Pages 82–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218687 Published: 01 January 1981
Invisible-hand explanations
Invisible-hand explanations
Normal Rationality
How do people proceed when they cannot act on the basis of reasons, or project likely consequences? How is social order possible? Ullmann-Margalit demonstrates that people have identifiable strategies for making difficult decisions, whether the question is small (what to buy at a supermarket) or big (whether to transform one’s life in some large-scale way). She also shows that social dilemmas are solved by norms; that invisible-hand explanations …
Family Fairness
Edna Ullmann-Margalit Family Fairness THIS PAPER IS THE LAST PART OF A THREE-PART PROJECT. THE LARGER picture is important for the proper framing of the present paper. Here then is an abstract of the three-part paper, which is about considerateness. Focusing on two extreme poles of the spectrum of human rela tionships, the paper argues that considerateness is the foundation upon which relationships are to be organized in both the thin anony mou…
Holding true and holding as true
Invisible-hand explanations
The Emergence of Norms
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Emergence of Norms. By Edna Ullmann-Margalit. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1977. Pp. 206. Price £8.00) Lanninq Sowden Lanninq Sowden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 122, January 1981, Pages 82–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218687 Published: 01 January 1981
The Emergence of Norms
Ullmann-Margalit's main thesis is that certain familiar types of normsfor example, of honor, of driving, and of private property -can be rationally reconstructed as solutions that emerge from three problems in game theory:(1) Prisoner's Dilemma-type situations; (2) Coordination situations; and (3) Inequality (or partiality) situations respectively.I must admit at the outset that I am not sure of having represented her main thesis accurately: In s…
Holding true and holding as true
Reasoning practically
"When we act, our reason is slave to our passions, said Hume. And the two questions, according to Kant, that a philosopher should address are, What can I know? and What am I to do? The essays collected by editor Edna Ullmann-Margalit in Reasoning Practically address the often elusive link between reason, or theory, and practice, or action. With new contributions from leading philosophers and legal and political theorists, this star-studded volume…
Family Fairness
Edna Ullmann-Margalit Family Fairness THIS PAPER IS THE LAST PART OF A THREE-PART PROJECT. THE LARGER picture is important for the proper framing of the present paper. Here then is an abstract of the three-part paper, which is about considerateness. Focusing on two extreme poles of the spectrum of human rela tionships, the paper argues that considerateness is the foundation upon which relationships are to be organized in both the thin anony mou…
Difficult Choices
Edna Ullmann-Margalit Difficult Choices: To Agonize or Not to Agonize? “AGONY OF DOUBT” “W H AT A DIFFICULT CHOICE,” A FRIEND SMILINGLY COMMENTS AS SHE faces the well-endowed dessert counter at a party.' Having heard the traf fic report on the radio in the morning, I may find it difficult to choose which route to take, as I learn that all routes to my destination are likely to be congested. A relative tells me that the formal act of signing the …
Invisible-Hand Explanations
Invisible-hand explanations suggest that many social practices are a product of human action, but not human design. In coming to terms with such explanations, it is essential to distinguish between explanations of the emergence of practices and explanations of the persistence of practices. The kind of invisible-hand explanation that accounts for the emergence of practices might turn out to be altogether different from the kind that accounts for t…
The Case of the Camera in the Kitchen
In the summer of 2007, a member of the Rationality Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem took it upon himself to install a closed-circuit TV camera in the Center’s kitchen. An email explained that the camera was installed in an effort to solve the problem of cleanness in the kitchen. The camera was removed a week later: within this week, the members of the Center exchanged close to 120 emails among themselves, expressing their opinions for…
Considerateness
Focusing on the extreme poles of the spectrum of human relationships, this chapter argues that considerateness is the foundation upon which our relationships are to be organized in both the thin, anonymous context of the public space and the thick, intimate context of the family. The first part of the paper, sections I–III, explores the idea that considerateness is the minimum that we owe to one another in the public space. By acting consideratel…
Normal Rationality
How do people proceed when they cannot act on the basis of reasons, or project likely consequences? How is social order possible? Ullmann-Margalit demonstrates that people have identifiable strategies for making difficult decisions, whether the question is small (what to buy at a supermarket) or big (whether to transform one’s life in some large-scale way). She also shows that social dilemmas are solved by norms; that invisible-hand explanations …
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