Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. The ‘Tracing Procedure’ and a Theory of Rational Interaction

   • Andrew K. Bjerring

   Pages 1-54

3. Variety Among Hiearchies of Preference

   • David Braybrooke

   Pages 55-65

4. Conflict and Structure in Multi-Level Multiple Objective Decision-Making Systems

   • Tom R. Burns, Dave Meeker

   Pages 67-114

5. Inadequacies in the Decision Analysis Model of Rationality

   • Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus

   Pages 115-124

6. Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility

   • Allan Gibbard, William L. Harper

   Pages 125-162

7. Coordination Theory

   • Hans G. Herzberger

   Pages 163-204

8. A Piagetian Approach to Decision and Game Theory

   • Nigel Howard

   Pages 205-225

9. Axiomatizing the Logic of Decision

   • Richard C. Jeffrey

   Pages 227-231

10. On Indeterminate Probabilities

    • Isaac Levi

    Pages 233-261

11. Irrelevance

    • Isaac Levi

    Pages 263-273

12. On a Decision Theoretic Method for Social Decision

    • Erwin Kreyszig

    Pages 275-281

13. Consensus and Comparison: A Theory of Social Rationality

    • Keith Lehrer

    Pages 283-309

14. Conjoint Measurement

    • R. Duncan Luce

    Pages 311-336

15. The Minimax Theory and Expected-Utility Reasoning

    • Edward F. McClennen

    Pages 337-367

16. Newcomb’s Many Problems

    • Isaac Levi

    Pages 369-383

17. Newcomb’s Problem, Dominance and Expected Utility

    • Doris Olin

    Pages 385-398

18. The Copernican Revelation

    • R. D. Rosenkrantz

    Pages 399-426

19. Prolegomena to a Theory of Rational Motives

    • Ilmar Waldner

    Pages 427-442

20. Back Matter

    Pages 443-448

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1. INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1975 we held an international workshop on the Foundations and Application of Decision Theory at the University of Western Ontario. To help structure the workshop into ordered and manageable sessions we distri­ buted the following statement of our goals to all invited participants. They in turn responded with useful revisions and suggested their own areas of interest. Since this procedure provided the eventual format of the sessions, we include it here as the most appropriate introduction to these collected papers result­ ing from the workshop. The reader can readily gauge the approximation to our mutual goals. 2. STATEMENT or OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE (Attached to this statement is a bibliography; names of persons cited in the statement and writing in this century will be found referenced in the biblio­ graphy - certain 'classics' aside. ) 2. 1. Preamble We understand in the following the Theory of Decisions in a broader sense than is presently customary, construing it to embrace a general theory of deciSion-making, induding social, political and economic theory and applica­ tions. Thus, we subsume the Theory of Games under the head of Decision Theory, regarding it as a particularly clearly formulated version of part of the general theory of decision-making.

• decision theory
• economic theory
• game theory
• logic

• The University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Clifford Alan Hooker, James J. Leach

• Washington University, St. Louis, USA

  Edward Francis >McClennen

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