Decision Making: An Experimental Approach.

Davidson, Suppes, McKinsey

Erscheinungsdatum: 1957

Beschreibung

Davidson, Donald and Suppes, Patrick. Decision Making An Experimental Approach, Stanford UP 1957. Hardcover without dust jacket and with slight scuffing. This is Donald Davidson s first real publication. The ideas continue through his all of his work. Davidson, with Quine and with right reason, came to realize that you cannot separate interpretation of another into a component where you figure out beliefs and a component where you figure out what the person wants. As he discovered, Frank Plumpton Ramsey had discovered more or less the same thing in a paper in the 1930s on measuring belief via betting preferences. The core idea that belief and desire are determined together is central to Davidson s version of indeterminacy of interpretation and also to his concept of interpretation as the understanding of a kind of action, and so subject to constraints of rationality we apply when we interpret events as actions. This document, with its duplicated typescript predecessor, is the beginning point of any adequate understanding of Davidson s intellectual trajectory. In his last works, versions of the early ideas adumbrated in these co-authored works are still key parts of his exposition and argument. Copies of this seminal text are hard to find. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1490146453274

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Decision Making: An Experimental Approach.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1957

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition