Chapter 1 Coping with Uncertainty in Natural Science: 1200–1700

Chapter 2 Political, Moral, and Economic Decisions and the Origins of the Mathematical Theory of Probability: The Case of Jacob Bernoulli’s The Art of Conjecturing

Chapter 3 The Quantification of Uncertainty after 1700: Statistics Socially Constructed?

Chapter 4 Uncertainty and the Conditioning of Beliefs

Chapter 5 The Unity of Probability

Chapter 6 Necessity, Chance, and Freedom

Chapter 7 Risk in Cultural Perspective

Chapter 8 Statistical Hypothesis Tests and Statistical Power in Pure and Applied Science

Chapter 9 Uncertainty in Environmental Risk Assessment

Chapter 10 Uncertainty in Morals and Politics

Chapter 11 Re-Modeling Risk Aversion: A Comparison of Bernoullian and Rank Dependent Value Approaches

Chapter 12 Neither Gullible Nor Unteachable Be: Signal Extraction and the Optimal Speed of Learning from Uncertain News

Chapter 13 Rethinking Rational Expectations

Chapter 14 Multiattribute Decision Models: Task Order and Group Effects

Chapter 15 Measuring Vague Uncertainties and Understanding Their Use in Decision Making

Chapter 16 Quantifying Vagueness and Possibility: New Trends in Knowledge Representation

Chapter 17 Chaos and Complexity in Economic and Financial Science

Chapter 18 Information