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Expected Utility, Ordering, and Context Freedom

Economics and Philosophy 13 (1):79 (1997)

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Outlines of a formal theory of value, I.Donald Davidson, J. C. C. McKinsey & Patrick Suppes - 1955 - Philosophy of Science 22 (2):140-160.details Contemporary philosophers interested in value theory appear to be largely concerned with questions of the following sort:What is value?What is the meaning of the word ‘good’?Does the attribution of value to an object have a cognitive, or merely an emotive, significance?The first question is metaphysical; to ask it is analogous to asking in physics:What is matter?What is electricity?The others are generally treated as semantical questions; to ask them is analogous to asking in statistics:What is the meaning of the word ‘probable’?Does (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 80 citations
Games against nature.John Willard Milnor - 1954 - In Robert McDowell Thrall (ed.), Decision processes. New York,: Wiley.details Download Export citation Bookmark 65 citations
Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations.Edward Francis McClennen - 1990 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.details This is a major contribution to the theory of rational choice which will be of particular interest to philosophers and economists. The author sets out the foundations of rational choice, and then sketches a dynamic choice framework in which principles of ordering and independence follow from a number of apparently plausible conditions. However, there is potential conflict among these conditions, and when they are weakened to avoid it the usual foundations of rational choice no longer prevail. The thrust of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 162 citations
The Foundations of Statistics.Leonard J. Savage - 1954 - Wiley Publications in Statistics.details Classic analysis of the subject and the development of personal probability; one of the greatest controversies in modern statistcal thought. Download Export citation Bookmark 901 citations
The Logic of Decision.Richard C. Jeffrey - 1965 - New York, NY, USA: University of Chicago Press.details "[This book] proposes new foundations for the Bayesian principle of rational action, and goes on to develop a new logic of desirability and probabtility."—Frederic Schick, _Journal of Philosophy_. Download Export citation Bookmark 770 citations
(1 other version)Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory.Ellery Eells & Michael D. Resnik - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (2):272.details Download Export citation Bookmark 51 citations
The Foundations of Statistics.Leonard J. Savage - 1956 - Philosophy of Science 23 (2):166-166.details Download Export citation Bookmark 856 citations
Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory.Michael D. Resnik - 1987 - Univ of Minnesota Press.details Download Export citation Bookmark 105 citations
Preference and Transitivity.Richard Lee - 1984 - Analysis 44 (3):129 - 134.details Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
(1 other version)Dutch bookies and money pumps.Frederic Schick - 1986 - Journal of Philosophy 83 (2):112-119.details Download Export citation Bookmark 73 citations
Subjective expected utility: A review of normative theories. [REVIEW]Peter C. Fishburn - 1981 - Theory and Decision 13 (2):139-199.details Download Export citation Bookmark 56 citations

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