Of great use as a background and introduction to the subject of decision making as a whole.

A clear exposition of the approaches to the problem of uncertain inference.

According to the dominant position among philosophers of language today, we can legitimately ascribe determinate contents (such as truth-conditions) to natural language ...

The book attempts to develop an account of simplicity in terms of testability, and to use this account to provide an adequate characterization of induction, one immune to the ...

This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.