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Risk and Rationality - Hardcover

Buchak, Lara

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9780199672165: Risk and Rationality
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ISBN 10: 0199672164 ISBN 13: 9780199672165
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Lara Buchak sets out a new account of rational decision-making in the face of risk. She argues that the orthodox view (expected utility theory) is too narrow, and suggests an alternative, more permissive theory: one that allows individuals to pay attention to the worst-case or best-case scenario, and vindicates the ordinary decision-maker.

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About the Author

Lara Buchak, University of California at Berkeley

Lara Buchak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. She received her AB from Harvard College in philosophy and mathematics in 2003, and her PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 2009. Her primary research is in decision-making, particularly decision-making in the face of risk. She also has interests in epistemology, in philosophy of religion, and in social choice theory. Some topics she has written on include when and why one ought to stop looking for more evidence and make a decision; what is the nature of faith, both in the religious and the more mundane sense; and what is the relationship between assigning probability to a hypothesis and outright believing that hypothesis.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199672164
ISBN 13 
9780199672165
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
274
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