Jon Elster

Person · Open Library

Works

76

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Germany

Active from

1971

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

63

Total plays

249

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision

   · 2016 · cited 21,606x

2. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,740x

3. Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer

   · 2012 · cited 10,740x

4. Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future.

   · 2003 · cited 9,939x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,223x

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Quotes

• “Let us take first an absurd example: always preferring goods that come on Thursdays to those that come on Wednesdays, solely because of a preference for that particular day of the week. As we shall see, this is not contrary to the principles of rational choice, but it is certainly contrary to reason. The simple preference for Thursdays is a reason, but reason also demands the reason for that reason. And obviously there is none.”
• “Characterized in this way, interest properly understood is an amalgam of objective and subjective elements. An entirely objective conception would substitute true beliefs for well-founded beliefs. But it is impossible to make political decisions dependent on the possession of truth.”
• “In this reconstruction, the idea of reason comprises three elements: impartiality with regard to persons, temporal impartiality, and rational or well-founded beliefs. No doubt we should add goodwill, in order to exclude impartial malice.”
• “In a general way, we can represent the present value of a future good as a function of the time separating the present from this future. In the classical conception, an exponential future discount is stipulated, which implies that the curves corresponding to two distinct future goods, one small and immediate, the other large and more remote, never intersect. According to more recent research, however, it seems that this discount typically takes a hyperbolic form.”
• “For action to be rational, the beliefs on which it is based must themselves be well founded. In turn, this requirement is divided into two parts. On the one hand, the beliefs must be unbiased with respect to the information the agent possesses; on the other hand, he must gather an optimal amount of information.”
• “Biases are either “hot” (that is, produced by the agent’s motivational system) or “cold” (more similar to optical illusions).”

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