Risk theory : rational decision in the face of chance, uncertainty, and risk / Nicholas Rescher.
2022
BF611 .R47 2022
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Title
Risk theory : rational decision in the face of chance, uncertainty, and risk / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas, author.
ISBN
9783030785024 (electronic bk.)
3030785025 (electronic bk.)
9783030785017
3030785017
3030785025 (electronic bk.)
9783030785017
3030785017
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-78502-4 doi
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BF611 .R47 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.8/3
Summary
Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management, this book has one principal aim. With situations of chancy outcomes certain key factorsincluding outcome possibilities, overall expectation, threat, and even luckare measurable parameters. But risk is something different: it is not measurable a single parametric quantity, but a many-sided factor that has several different components, and constitutes a complex phenomenon that must be assessed judgmentally in a highly contextualized way. This book explains and analyzes how this works out in practice. Topics in this work include choice and risk, chance and likelihood, as well as outcome-yield evaluation and risk. It takes into account abnormal situations and eccentric measurements, situational evaluation and expectation and scrutinizes the social aspect of risk. The book is of interest to logicians, philosophers of mathematics, and researchers of risk assessment. The project is a companion piece to the author's LUCK THEORY, also published by Springer.
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SpringerBriefs in philosophy.
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Table of Contents
1. Choice and Risk
2. Chance and Likelihood
3. Outcome-Yield Evaluation and Risk
4. Abnormal Situations and Eccentric Measurements
5. Situational Evaluation and Expectation
6. Uncertainty
7. Risk Assessment
8. Comparing Chancy Situations via Risk and Promise
9. Managing Risk and Uncertainty
10. The Social Aspect of Risk
Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor in the Light of Rational Decision
Appendix 2. Lessons of the Prisoners Dilemma.
2. Chance and Likelihood
3. Outcome-Yield Evaluation and Risk
4. Abnormal Situations and Eccentric Measurements
5. Situational Evaluation and Expectation
6. Uncertainty
7. Risk Assessment
8. Comparing Chancy Situations via Risk and Promise
9. Managing Risk and Uncertainty
10. The Social Aspect of Risk
Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor in the Light of Rational Decision
Appendix 2. Lessons of the Prisoners Dilemma.