Introduction
1: InstInstrumental Rationality and Expected Utility Theory
2: Risk-Weighted Expected Utility
3: Representation
4: Redescription
5: Consistency
6: Diachronic Choice
7: Bookmaking and Packaging
8: Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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.
`Risk and Rationality is a valuable addition to any decision theory
library. Buchak provides an exceptionally clear, careful, and
sustained defense of a theory for reasoning about uncertainty that
takes risk into account.'
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
`Given the technical nature of its subject matter, Risk and
Rationality is surprisingly easy to follow. Buchak's writing is
free of jargon and she manages to explain even the technical
details of her theory in such a non-technical way that I am sure
any student of philosophy will be able to follow her
discussion.'
H. Orri Stefansson, Journal of Economics and Philosophy
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