Accounting for Possibilities in Decision Making

Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 135-169

  Betz, Gregor ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Deep uncertainty; Epistemic possibility; Expected utility; Ignorance; Knightian uncertainty; Maximin; Modal epistemology; Possibility; Precautinary principle; Probabilism; Real possibility; Risk imposition; Robust decision analysis; Surprise; Unknown unknowns; Worst case

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061424035     PISSN: 22149120     EISSN: 22149139     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30549-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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