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Nicholas Rescher

Risk Theory

Rational Decision in the Face of Chance, Uncertainty, and Risk

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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 factors-including outcome possibilities, overall expectation, threat, and even luck-are 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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-3-030-78501-7
  • EAN: 9783030785017
  • Produktnummer: 37700355
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 96 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.5 cm 160 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 160

Über den Autor


Nicholas Rescher, a much published and widely respected philosopher, has been awarded the Aquinas Medal, the Helmholz Medal of the Berlin/Brandenburg Academy of Science, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Honorary degrees have been awarded to him by eight universities on three continents.

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