Paul Weirich’s Publications
August, 2007
Professor, Philosophy Department
University of Missouri-Columbia
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  1. Books
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  3. Articles and Book Chapters
  4. Critical Notices, Reviews, and Miscellaneous Publications
Books

Realistic Decision Theory: Rules for Nonideal Agents in Nonideal Circumstances.  2004.  New York: Oxford University Press, xxi + 267 pp.  Also published in an electronic edition by Oxford Scholarship Online, URL: www.oxfordscholarship.com.

Decision Space: Multidimensional Utility Analysis.  2001.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiv + 272 pp.  A volume in the series, Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision Theory.  Paperback edition, 2007.  Also published in an electronic edition by netLibrary, URL: www.netLibrary.com.

Equilibrium and Rationality: Game Theory Revised by Decision Rules.  1998.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xii + 235 pp.  Paperback edition, 2007.  A volume in the series, Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision Theory.  Also published in a Chinese language edition by Economic Science Press, 2000.

Edited Books and Special Issues

Realistic Standards for Decisions. Forthcoming 2008. Edited with Raymond Dacey. A special issue of the journal Synthese. Six essays totaling 60,000 words, including an introduction and an essay by me.

Labeling Genetically Modified Food: The Philosophical and Legal Debate. Forthcoming 2007. New York: Oxford University Press. A twelve-essay collection with an introduction and an essay by me, xx + 248 pages. Also published in an electronic edition by Oxford Scholarship Online, URL: www.oxfordscholarship.com.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Universal, Joint, and Collective Rationality.” Forthcoming 2007. Social Choice and Welfare. Special issue with papers selected from the Conference on the Philosophical Aspects of Social Choice and Welfare, held in 2005 at the University of Caen, France. 19 journal pages.

“Initiating Coordination.” Forthcoming 2007. Philosophy of Science. Special issue with papers selected from the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting held in 2006. 24 ms. pages.

“Utility Maximization Generalized.” Forthcoming 2007. Journal of Moral Philosophy. 26 ms. pages.

“Probabilities in Decision Rules.”  Forthcoming 2007.  In Ellery Eells and James Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability in Science.  Chicago: Open Court.  60 ms. pages.

“Rousseau on Proportional Majority Rule.” 2005. In Thom Brooks, ed., Rousseau and Law. London: Ashgate, pp. 109-124. Reprint of a 1986 article with the same title.

“Belief and Acceptance.”  2004.  In Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, and Jan Wolenski, eds., Handbook of Epistemology, pp. 499–520.  Dordrecht: Kluwer.

“Economic Rationality.”  2004.  In Alfred Mele and Piers Rawling, eds., Oxford Handbook of Rationality, pp. 380–398.  New York: Oxford University Press.

“Nash’s Influence on Philosophy.”  2002.  In Constantina Kottaridi and Gregorios Siourounis, eds., John Nash: Qewria Maigniwn (Game Theory: A Festschrift in Honor of John Nash), pp. 186–190.  Athens: Eurasia Publications.

“Risk’s Place in Decision Rules.”  2001.  Synthese, Vol. 126, pp. 427–441.  Link to article.   Also in Wlodek Rabinowicz and Nils-Eric Sahlin, eds. Spinning Ideas, a Festschrift for Peter Gärdenfors, 1999, electronic publication, http://www.lucs.lu.se/spinning/

“Self-Supporting Strategies and Equilibria in Games.”  1999.  American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 36 , pp. 323–336.

“Comte et Mill sur l’économie politique” (Comte and Mill on Political Economy).  1998.  Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Vol. 52, pp. 79–93.  An earlier version was published as “Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, et l’économie politique” (Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, and Political Economy), Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Vol. 8 (1996), pp. 40–53.

“The Hypothesis of Nash Equilibrium and Its Bayesian Justification.”  1994.  In Dag Prawitz and Dag Westerståhl, eds., Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, pp. 245–264.  Dordrecht: Kluwer.

“Contractarianism and Bargaining Theory.”  1993.  In John Heil, ed., Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest, pp. 161–174.  London: Rowman and Littlefield.  A 1991 version was published in a memorial volume for Mark Overvold, Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 16, pp. 369–385.

“L’Égalité et les Sentiments Sociaux” (Equality and the Social Sentiments).  1992.  In Robert Thiéry, ed., Rousseau, l’Émile et la Révolution, pp. 77–87.  Paris: Universitas.

“Rousseau on Equality.”  1992.  History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 9, pp. 191–198.

“The General Welfare as a Constitutional Goal.”  1991.  In David Speak and Creighton Peden, eds., The American Constitutional Experiment, pp. 411–432.  Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

“Group Decisions and Decisions for a Group.”  1991.  In Attila Chikán, ed., Progress in Decision, Utility and Risk Theory, pp. 271–279.  Norwell, MA: Kluwer.

“L'Utilité Collective” (Collective Utility).  1990.  In Edith Archambault and Oleg Arkhipoff, eds., La Comptabilité Nationale Face au Défi International (National Accounting in the Face of an International Challenge), pp. 411–422.  Paris: Economica.

“Conventions and Social Institutions.”  1989.  The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 27, pp. 599–618.

“Hierarchical Maximization of Two Kinds of Expected Utility.”  1988.  Philosophy of Science, Vol. 55, pp. 560–582. Link to article.

“A Game-Theoretic Comparison of the Utilitarian and Maximin Rules of Social Choice.”  1988.  Erkenntnis, Vol. 28, pp. 117–133.

“Trustee Decisions in Investment and Finance.”  1988.  Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 7, pp. 73–80. Link to article.

“Mean-Risk Decision Analysis.”  1987.  Theory and Decision, Vol. 23, pp. 89–111.

“Expected Utility and Risk.”  1986.  British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 37, pp. 419–442.Link to article.

“A Naturalistic Approach to Rational Deliberation.”  1986.  In Newton Garver and Peter Hare, eds., Naturalism and Rationality, pp. 177–188.  Buffalo: Prometheus Books.

“Decisions in Dynamic Settings.”  1986.  In Arthur Fine and Peter Machamer, eds., PSA 1986, Vol. I, pp. 438–449.  East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association.

“Rousseau on Proportional Majority Rule.”  1986.  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 47, pp. 111–126. Link to article.

“Decision Instability.”  1985.  The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 63, pp. 465–472. Link to article.

“Probabilities of Conditionals in Decision Theory.”  1985.  Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 65, pp. 59–73.

“The St. Petersburg Gamble and Risk.”  1984.  Theory and Decision, Vol. 17, pp. 193–202.

“Interpersonal Utility in Principles of Social Choice.”  1984.  Erkenntnis, Vol. 21, pp. 295–317.

“A Decision Maker’s Options.”  1983.  Philosophical Studies, Vol. 44, pp. 175–186.

“Utility Tempered with Equality.”  1983.  Noûs, Vol. 17, pp. 423–439. Link to article.

“Conditional Probabilities and Probabilities Given Knowledge of a Condition.”  1983.   Philosophy of Science, Vol. 50, pp. 82–95. Link to article

“Thomas Mark on Works of Virtuosity.”  1982.   The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 40, pp. 327–328. Link to article.

“Decisions When Desires Are Uncertain.”  1982.  In Michael Bradie and Kenneth Sayre, eds., Reason and Decision, pp. 69–75.  Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University.

“A Bias of Rationality.”  1981.  The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 59, pp. 31–37. Link to article.

“Conditional Utility and Its Place in Decision Theory.”  1980.  The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, pp. 702–715. Link to article.

“Conditionalization and Evidence.”  1979.  The Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. 8, pp. 15–18.

Critical Notices, Reviews, and Miscellaneous Publications

“Review of Erik J. Olsson, ed., KNOWLEDGE AND INQUIRY: ESSAYS ON THE PRAGMATISM OF ISAAC LEVI.” Forthcoming 2007. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. An online journal. 5 ms. pages.

“Review of John L. Pollock, THINKING ABOUT ACTING: LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR RATIONAL DECISION MAKING.” 2007. Philosophical Books, Vol. 48, pp. 283-285. Link to article.

“Review of Annie Petit, ed., AUGUSTE COMTE: TRAJECTOIRES POSITIVISTES 1798-1998.” 2005. Isis, Vol. 96, pp. 470-471. Link to article.

“Review of Isaac Levi, MILD CONTRACTION.”  2005.  Mind,Vol. 114, pp. 753-757. Link to article.

“Review of Joseph Halpern, REASONING ABOUT UNCERTAINTY.”  2004. Philosophy in Review.

“Review of Frederick Schick, AMBIGUITY AND LOGIC.”  2004.  Philosophy in Review.

“From Rationality to Coordination.”  2003.  Comments on “Cooperation, Psychological Game Theory, and Limitations of Rationality in Social Interaction” by A. M. Colman.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 26, pp. 179–180. Link to article

“Decisions to Follow a Rule.”  2002.  Comments on “Altruism and Selfishness” by Howard Rachlin.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 25, pp. 280–281. Link to article.

“Comments on Ellis’s ‘What Economists (and Everyone Else) Should Think About Utility Theory.’”   2002.  Proceedings of the 2001 meeting of the Southwest Philosophical Society, Southwest Philosophical Review, Vol. 18, pp. 117–120.

“Review of Ken Binmore, GAME THEORY AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, VOLUME 2, JUST PLAYING.”  2001.  Ethics, Vol. 111, pp. 794–797. Link to article.

“Review of James Joyce, THE FOUNDATIONS OF CAUSAL DECISION THEORY.”  2000.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 41, pp. 217–219. Link to article.

“Review of John Kagel, Raymond Battalio, and Leonard Green, ECONOMIC CHOICE THEORY: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR.”  1999.  Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 15, pp. 295–302.

“Review of Cristina Bicchieri, Richard Jeffrey, and Brian Skyrms, eds., THE DYNAMICS OF NORMS.”  1997.  Philosophy in Review, Vol. 17, pp. 386–388.

“Review of Geoffrey Scarre, UTILITARIANISM.”  1997.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 38, pp. 288–289. Link to article.

“Review of Robert Wokler, ed., ROUSSEAU AND LIBERTY.”  1997.  Ethics, Vol. 107, p. 764. Link to article.

Entry on “decision theory.”  1997.  In R. Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane, eds., Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, pp. 164–165.  This book is Vol. 11 of Cary Cooper and Chris Argyris, eds., Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management.  London: Blackwell.

“Review of Mark Kaplan, DECISION THEORY AS PHILOSOPHY.”  1996.  Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 16, pp.179–180.

“Review of Gillis Harp, POSITIVIST REPUBLIC.”  1996.  Ethics, Vol. 107, pp. 192–193. Link to article.

Entries on “bargaining theory,” “Bertrand’s paradox,” “Bertrand’s box paradox,” “Comte,” “Condorcet,” “Laplace,” “Newcomb's paradox,” and “the St. Petersburg paradox.”  1995.  In Robert Audi, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Also, an entry on “Allais’s Paradox” added to the second edition, 1999.

“Review of J. Howard Sobel, TAKING CHANCES.”  1995.  Ethics, Vol. 106, pp. 191–192. Link to article.

“Review of Elizabeth Anderson, VALUE IN ETHICS AND ECONOMICS.”  1994.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 36, pp. 139–141.

“Review of Christopher Peacocke, A STUDY OF CONCEPTS.”  1994.  Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 48, pp. 159–160.

“Adam Morton on Dilemmas.”  1994.  Critical notice of Adam Morton, DISASTERS AND DILEMMAS.  Dialogue, Vol. 33, pp. 95–100.

“Review of Richard Jeffrey, PROBABILITY AND THE ART OF JUDGMENT.”  1992.  Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 12, pp. 333–335.

“Review of Ellery Eells and Tomasz Maruszewski, eds., PROBABILITY AND RATIONALITY.”  1992.  Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 12, pp. 189–191.

“The Social Sciences on Rationality.”  1992.  Critical notice of Jon Elster, SOLOMONIC JUDGEMENTS, NUTS AND BOLTS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, and THE CEMENT OF SOCIETY.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 33, pp. 1–9.

“Review of Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, SCIENTIFIC REASONING.”  1991.  Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 11, pp. 36–38.

“Review of James Schellenberg, PRIMITIVE GAMES.”  1991.  Ethics, Vol. 101, p. 909. Link to article.

“Review of Jonathan Riley, LIBERAL UTILITARIANISM.”  1989.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 30, pp. 182–183.

“Review of Amartya Sen, THE STANDARD OF LIVING.”  1988.  Philosophical Books, Vol. 29, pp. 180–183.

“Review of Richmond Campbell and Lanning Sowden, eds., PARADOXES OF RATIONALITY AND COOPERATION.”  1986.  Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 6, pp. 141–143.

“Review of Clark Glymour, THEORY AND EVIDENCE.”  1981.  Philosophical Topics, Vol. 12, pp. 294–299.