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

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

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

Cooperative Agents

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 32
• Agent-based modelling on a computer appears to have a special role to play in the development of social science. It offers a means of discovering gene... Lees meer

Generating Images of Stratification

Thomas J Fararo, Kenji Kosaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 35
• Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory probl... 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

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

Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and Its Role in Economics

Wenceslao J Gonzalez

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

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

Science, Politics and Morality

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 17
• Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics a... 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

Morality and Rational Choice

J Baron

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 18
• Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resou... 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

Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason

Julian Nida-Rümelin

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 52
• In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues... Lees meer

Analyzing Rational Crime -- Models and Methods

Olof Dahlbäck

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 36
• Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond th... 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

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

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

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

The Metaphysics of Liberty

Frank Forman

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory and Decision Library A: | nr. 6
• Philosophy suffers from an excess of convoluted introspection. One result is that concepts multiply unchecked. That some events have observable causes... Lees meer

Moral Strata

John R Welch

• Hardcover | 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