Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Theory and Decision

Essays in Honor of Werner Leinfellner

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Editors:
  1. Gerald L. Eberlein

    1. Institute for Social Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Hal Berghel

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library (TDLU, volume 50)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Philosophy and Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. On Some Limits and Resources of Common-Sense Psychology

      • Robert Audi
      Pages 3-27

    3. Probability and Proportions

      • John L. Pollock
      Pages 29-66

    4. Why Substitutional Quantification Does Not Express Existence

      • Philip Hugly, Charles Sayward
      Pages 67-75

  3. Methodology of Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Ideology and Science

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 79-89

    3. Some Imperfections in the Scientific Communication System and a Possible Remedy

      • Ole Hagen
      Pages 91-106

    4. Value-Free Vs. Value-Conscious Social Sciences

      • Gerald L. Eberlein, O. P. Obermeier
      Pages 107-136

  4. Economics and Social Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Public Bads and Socio-Moral Reasoning: The Case of the New Social Movements in Germany

      • Lucian Kern, Hans-Georg Räder
      Pages 139-168

    3. The Impact of Computers on Job Opportunities: An Analysis of Employment Trends, 1972–1982

      • H. L. Berghel, D. L. Sallach
      Pages 169-189

    4. Insurance Without Utility Theory

      • Karl Borch
      Pages 191-202

  5. Game and Decision Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Three Theorems on the Theory of Cardinal Utility and Random Choice

      • Maurice Allais
      Pages 205-222

    3. Chairman Paradoxes Under Approval Voting

      • Steven J. Brams, Dan S. Felsenthal, Zeev Maoz
      Pages 223-233

    4. Some Recent Developments in Game Theory

      • John C. Harsanyi
      Pages 235-260

    5. Foundations of Preference

      • Thomas A. Cowan, Peter C. Fishburn
      Pages 261-271

    6. What Does Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Tell Us?

      • Heinz J. Skala
      Pages 273-286

    7. Choice Processes, Computability and Complexity: Computable Choice Functions

      • Hans W. Gottinger
      Pages 287-300
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This collection of articles contains contributions from a few of Werner Leinfellner's many friends and colleagues. Some of them are former students of Werner's. Others were colleagues of his at various American and European universities. Further, some have come to know Werner through his research, his long-standing editorship of Theory and Deci­ sion and his extensive participation in international conferences and congresses. The following articles are new to this volume. The areas covered are those in which Werner continues to play an active professional role. We offer them as a tribute to the many and multi-faceted contributions to the scientific enterprise for which Werner Leinfellner is so widely known. We believe such a festschrift to be fitting and long overdue. Because of the breadth of Werner's professional associations, it was difficult to select representatives from among his many spheres of influence. We apologize to the many scholars who could not be in­ cluded because of time and space considerations. Finally, we wish to express appreciation to Dean John Guilds of the University of Arkansas for providing financial support early on in the evolution of this project, to Jennifer Bauman for her bravura performance in copy-editing the manuscripts, and to our publisher at Reidel for bringing this volume to press.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Social Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany

    Gerald L. Eberlein

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas, USA

    Hal Berghel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theory and Decision

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Werner Leinfellner

  • Editors: Gerald L. Eberlein, Hal Berghel

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3895-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2519-6Due: 30 November 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8230-3Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3895-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 325

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation