Idealisations in normative models

Synthese

Volumn 190, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1337-1350

  Colyvan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Formal epistemology; Idealisations; Normativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875545423     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0166-z     Document Type: Article

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