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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808652003321

Autore

Hammond Kenneth R.

Titolo

Human judgement and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice / / Kenneth R. Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-028266-5

0-19-773575-4

1-280-45133-5

0-19-535704-3

1-60256-050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

302.3

Soggetti

Social policy - Decision making

Decision making

Uncertainty

Judgment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: RIVALRY; 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment; 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation; 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis; II: TENSION; 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence; 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence; III: COMPROMISE AND RECONCILIATION; 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise; 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure; 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity; IV: POSSIBILITIES; 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening?

10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing?11. Possibilities for Wisdom; 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence; 13. Rivalry, Tension-Forever?; Conclusion; Some Conjectures About Competence; Epilogue; Notes; References; Indexes; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human



error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world.