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PHIL 341Decision and Value Theory

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
1975–76

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1969–70 to 1975–76; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

A systematic study of the basic concepts in decision-making theories and their associated value theories. Special emphasis will be devoted to the definition and measurement of utility functions and to the various criteria employed in models of decision-making under uncertainty and under risk. Extensive use will be made of literature from Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Mathematical Statistics. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. 3 hours.

As printed in the 1969–70 to 1975–76 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

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    In the scanned calendars

    How it read in each calendar from 1969–70 to 1975–76, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1969–70 to 1975–76 7 calendars

    A systematic study of the basic concepts in decision-making theories and their associated value theories. Special emphasis will be devoted to the definition and measurement of utility functions and to the various criteria employed in models of decision-making under uncertainty and under risk. Extensive use will be made of literature from Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Mathematical Statistics. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. 3 hours.