Logic of Decision and Action, The - Softcover

Rescher, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822984008 ISBN 13: 9780822984009

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967

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Reseña del editor:

The four main essays in this volume investigate new sectors of the theory of decision, preference, act-characteristics, and action analysis. Herbert A. Simon applies tools developed in the theory of decision-making to the logic of action, and thereby develops a novel concept of heuristic power. Adapting ideas from utility and decision theory, Nicholas Rescher proposes a logic of preference by which conflicting theories proposed by G. H. von Wright, R. M. Chisholm, and others can be systematized. Donald Davidson discusses difficulties in specifying the structure of action sentences to elucidate how their meaning depends on that structure. G. H. von Wright devises a method for describing each "state of the world" that results from an action, in a revision of his own earlier work. Additionally, a study of the logic of norms by Alan Ross Anderson is presented as an appendix, along with an appendix by Rescher outlining the aspects of action.

Biografía del autor:

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is the author or editor of nearly one hundred books, including Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency, and Ignorance: (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge).

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0822984008
• ISBN 13: 9780822984009
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236