After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

This paper provides new foundations for Bayesian Decision Theory based on a
representation theorem for preferences defined on a set of prospects containing both factual …

This paper reconstructs and evaluates the representation theorem presented by Ramsey in
his essay 'Truth and Probability', showing how its proof depends on a novel application of …

Frank Ramsey's philosophy of science is considered abstruse due to the incompleteness
and difficulty of his paper “Theories”. This has not prevented various authors from arguing …

Abstract Frank Ramsey's 'Truth and Probability'sketches a proposal for the empirical
measurement of credences, along with a corresponding set of axioms for a (somewhat …

The standard representation theorem for expected utility theory tells us that if a subject's
preferences conform to certain axioms, then she can be represented as maximising her …

This paper explores the problem of comparing the strengths of different individual's attitudes,
and especially their evaluative attitudes, by looking at how measures of these quantities are …

This paper investigates, within the axiomatic framework of Jeffrey-Bolker decision theory,
two kinds of conditions and the relation between them:(1) The Utilitarian condition that social …

Abstract Among many things, Frank Ramsey is famous for his invention of a logical device
called the Ramsey sentence. The Ramsey sentence of a scientific theory is a conjunction of …

Neoclassical economists use expected utility theory to explain, predict, and prescribe
choices under risk, that is, choices where the decision-maker knows–or at least deems it …