Right decisions or happy decision-makers?

Social Epistemology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-368

  Steele, Katie ^a   Regan, Helen M ^b   Colyvan, Mark ^a,c   Burgman, Mark A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Philosophy ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation Decision making; Formal Consensus; Group Decision; Social Choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949019572     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691720601159711     Document Type: Article

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