| Taking Chances: Essays on Rational Choice Contributor(s): Sobel, Jordan Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521038987 ISBN-13: 9780521038980 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: The essays in this book develop and explore the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an action's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes. The author establishes principles for distinguishing options in decision problems and pays much attention to games--both isolated and iterated. The book also views critically Gauthier's revisionist ideas about maximizing rationality. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 003.56 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision The |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6" W x 9" (1.26 lbs) 392 pages |