Nicholas Rescher

Risk Theory (eBook, PDF)

Rational Decision in the Face of Chance, Uncertainty, and Risk

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030785024
• Artikelnr.: 62676513

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher, a much published and widely respected philosopher, has been awarded the Aquinas Medal, the Helmholz Medal of the Berlin/Brandenburg Academy of Science, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Honorary degrees have been awarded to him by eight universities on three continents.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Choice and Risk.- 2. Chance and Likelihood .- 3. Outcome-Yield Evaluation and Risk.- 4. Abnormal Situations and Eccentric Measurements.- 5. Situational Evaluation and Expectation.- 6. Uncertainty.- 7. Risk Assessment.- 8. Comparing Chancy Situations via Risk and Promise.- 9. Managing Risk and Uncertainty.- 10. The Social Aspect of Risk.- Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor in the Light of Rational Decision.- Appendix 2. Lessons of the Prisoner's Dilemma.