Decision Making under Great Uncertainty

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-386

  Hansson, Sven Ove ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0001212852     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004839319602600304     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. L. J. Savage, The Foundations of Statistics (New York: John Wiley, 1954).
2. Masanao Toda, "The Decision Process: A Perspective," International Journal of General Systems 3 (1976): 79-88.
3. The special case when all the probabilities are either 0 or 1 coincides with decision making under certainty.
4. Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections, edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 227.
5. F. J. Donahoe, "'Anomalous' Water," Nature 224 (1969): 198.
6. Russell Ruthen, "Strange Matter," Scientific American (August 1993): 10.
7. If some of the experts are considered to be more reliable than the others, then their opinions may be weighed according to this. This complication is not considered here.
8. It was introduced in Sven Ove Hansson, "Entscheidungsfindung bei Uneinigkeit der Experten," in Die Modernisierung der Demokratien, edited by Horst Zuließen, Peter C. Dienel, and Wendelin Strubelt (Opladen, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1993), 87-96. An English translation is obtainable from the author.
9. Thomas H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship and Social Development (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).
10. See the critical discussion in Sven Ove Hansson, "The False Promises of Risk Analysis," Ratio 6 (1993): 16-26.