Category: decision theory

Itzhak Gilboa

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Economics and Decision Sciences

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Itzhak Gilboa is a Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC, Paris, and Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University. He works in decision theory and other fields in economic theory such as game theory and social choice.  His main interest is in decision under uncertainty, focusing on the definition of probability, notions of rationality, non-Bayesian decision models, and related issues. He holds the AXA-HEC Chair for Decision Science.

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Richard Bradley

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Philosophy

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Richard Bradley is Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works broadly in decision theory and related fields such as formal epistemology and semantics. His research interests include decision making under uncertainty and the role of hypothetical reasoning in reaching judgements about what to do, the nature of the intentional attitudes, belief and preference revision, social value and choice, as well as the nature of chance and our attitudes to it, and decision making under severe uncertainty. He is leader of the Managing Severe Uncertainty project at the LSE.

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