Non-Bayesian Decision Theory

Martin Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 44
• For quite some time, philosophers, economists, and statisticians have endorsed a view on rational choice known as Bayesianism. The work on this book h... Lees meer

Principia Economica

G Bernard

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 7
• It has already been said, if not written, that progress in knowledge in any domain consists mainly of expressing things that are well known in a diffe... Lees meer

Rationality, Rules, and Structure

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 28
• It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality,... Lees meer

Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy

S O Funtowicz, J R Ravetz

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 15
• This book explains the notational system NUSAP (Numeral, Unit, Spread, Assessment, Pedigree) and applies it to several examples from the environmental... Lees meer

Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 23
• Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capac... Lees meer

Evolution and Progress in Democracies

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 31
• In a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic and the transforma... Lees meer

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 39
• For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing... Lees meer

Moral Contract Theory and Social Cognition

Peter Timmerman

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 48
• This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In a com... Lees meer

Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 9
• This book grew out of the conviction that the preparation and management of large-scale technological projects can be substantially improved. We have ... Lees meer

Functional Models of Cognition

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 27
• Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world. It seems impo... Lees meer

The Case Against Consequentialism Reconsidered

Nikil Mukerji

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 51
• This book argues that critics of consequentialism have not been able to make a successful and comprehensive case against all versions of consequential... Lees meer

Moral Contract Theory and Social Cognition

Peter Timmerman

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 48
• This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In a com... Lees meer

Consequentialism Reconsidered

E Carlson

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 20
• In Consequentialism Reconsidered , Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism. Key notions are analyze... Lees meer

Alternative Action Theory

Ota Weinberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 26
• Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely ... Lees meer

Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 54
• This Festschrift celebrates Teddy Seidenfeld and his seminal contributions to philosophy, statistics, probability, game theory and related areas. The ... Lees meer

Understanding Economic Behaviour

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 11
• may be related to another basic assumption in economic psychology: that the human capacity to process information from the environment is limited, and... Lees meer

Moral Strata

John R Welch

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 49
• This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for... Lees meer

An Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution

Jürgen Klüver

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 34
• Writing about sociocultural evolution is always a complicated enterprise, because the subject is not only difficult in a scientific way but also in a ... Lees meer

Acting Under Uncertainty

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 13
• Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery. In ordinary speech, however, it has mostly negative connotations. There is "fe... Lees meer

Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and Its Role in Economics

Wenceslao J Gonzalez

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 50
• This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various... Lees meer

The Lifetime of a Durable Good

G Antonides

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 12
• As a psychologist by education, my interest is in how people solve problems. At the Economic Institute of Leyden Universi ty, I learned that economist... Lees meer

Reductionism and Systems Theory in the Life Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 10
• The present volume aims at giving a discussion ot the problems ot reductionism in contemporary life sciences. It contains six papers which deals with ... Lees meer

Evolution and Constitution

E F Oeser

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 37
• This work for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms. It offers the reader a survey and a new explanation of evolutionary emer... Lees meer

Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 41
• Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle's ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scien... Lees meer