deliberator

Management For Effective CEOs, Look Up While the traditional picture of a chief executive is of a stoic, conservative deliberator, new research suggests that companies are better off with a high-flying risk taker—literally.

Week in Ideas David DiSalvo 2011

This change was led by the Nerd-in-Chief himself who, despite his ability to take it to the hoop, is more policy wonk than saber rattler, more deliberator than agitator, more tortoise than hare.

Dr. Jim Taylor: White House Geek Is Chic 2010

Yes, a deliberator may sensibly assign probabilities to any events, including her acts.

Causal Decision Theory Weirich, Paul 2008

Since even the desideratum of practical coherence is subject to such re-specification, this holistic possibility really does represent an alternative to commensuration, as the deliberator, and not some coherence standard, retains reflective sovereignty

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

As in Ann's case, we can see in certain contexts that a deliberator is likely to get things wrong if he or she acts on his or her perception of the first-order reasons.

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

Unlike agent-relativity or agent-neutrality, deliberator relativity and deliberator neutrality cannot simply be

Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative Ridge, Michael 2005

BROWN: Well, Ray was more, as the book says, the deliberator.

CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2005 2005

But our deliberator quickly perceived that it would not do for him to meddle in this infamous negotiation; and, without pondering over it any longer, he resolved to open his mind to Doctor Azzecca-Garbugli; so far, that is, as was necessary to make him acquainted with his desire.

Chapter XI 1909

He who has few names is in so far forth an incompetent deliberator.

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876

Far from being the sort of impulsive, gut-spilling artist implied by the term "action painting," he was a deliberator.

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