Rationality of belief or: Why savage's axioms are neither necessary nor sufficient for rationality

Synthese

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-31

  Gilboa, Itzhak ^a,b   Postlewaite, Andrew ^e   Schmeidler, David ^a,c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian paradigm; Beliefs; Probability; Rationality; Savage axioms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863184566     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-0034-2     Document Type: Article

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