Facts, norms and expected utility functions

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 45-62

  Jallais, Sophie ^a   Pradier, Pierre Charles ^a   Teira, David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b Department of Logic History and Philosophy of Science (UNED)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expected utility functions; History of expected utility; Normative decision theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949152275     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695108091414     Document Type: Article

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