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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 October 2017
      26 October 2017
      ISBN:
      9780511760105
      9781107003217
      9781108793612
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511760105
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 350 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 349 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Science, Optimization, OR and risk, Statistics and Probability, Philosophy
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    When making decisions, people naturally face uncertainty about the potential consequences of their actions due in part to limits in their capacity to represent, evaluate or deliberate. Nonetheless, they aim to make the best decisions possible. In Decision Theory with a Human Face, Richard Bradley develops new theories of agency and rational decision-making, offering guidance on how 'real' agents who are aware of their bounds should represent the uncertainty they face, how they should revise their opinions as a result of experience and how they should make decisions when lacking full awareness of, or precise opinions on relevant contingencies. He engages with the strengths and flaws of Bayesian reasoning, and presents clear and comprehensive explorations of key issues in decision theory, from belief and desire to semantics and learning. His book draws on philosophy, economics, decision science and psychology, and will appeal to readers in all of these disciplines.

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    'Decision Theory with a Human Face is a major work that unifies and expands on an already impressive body of work from Bradley. It is difficult to think of many major debates in philosophical decision theory to which it does not make significant contributions.'

    Timothy Luke Williamson Source: Metascience

    'This book represents an important step forward in the literature, and Bradley does an impressive job in providing a rigorous treatment of decision theory that refuses to idealise away from key features of human rationality.'

    Timothy Luke Williamson Source: Metascience

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