Bad news first. If you’re a professional philosopher, your first impression—but in a moment, I’ll suggest that it might be a misimpression—will be that this book is not for you. It will strike you as a dilatory tour of various ways people make up their minds about what to do, with no pretense to systematicity, and with a slant toward somewhat recent psychology and economics literatures. The emphasis, as the title indicates, is that there are choices between decision-making techniques, but there’s nothing like a cohesive metatheory to tie the discussion together. If you have any dealings with the subject matter, most of the content will be familiar; but if you don’t, it’s not usable as an introduction or overview. And I expect you’ll…

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