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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Robert), 1917- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy--Decision making.

Social policy.

Decision making.

Uncertainty.

Judgment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9780190282660

0190282665

9780197735756

0197735754

9781280451331

1280451335

9780195357042

0195357043

9781602560505

1602560501

OCLC:

252558962