Uncertainty in the Context of Pragmatist Philosophy and Rational Choice Theory

What is meant by uncertainty? Presumably it is a term that has been used in a variety of ways. The present article focuses on some of the interesting relations between uncertainty and both pragmatist philosophy and rational choice theory. Section 2 is concerned primarily with the ways that uncertainty has been accommodated in the study of rational choice and, in particular, the ways in which attempts to accommodate uncertainty have motivated departures from the orthodox Bayesian tradition that finds its roots in the work of Ramsey and Savage. Section 3 is concerned primarily with the ways that the aforementioned departures from the orthodox Bayesian tradition can be seen as arising from a commitment to pragmatist principles of the sort that are developed in the work of Peirce and Levi.