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Jan 2025
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Robert Williams on Decision Making Under...

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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How can we make decisions under conditions of indeterminacy? Robert Williams discusses this challenging issue with Nigel Warburton. 

This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast has been made in association with Vagueness & Ethics, a research project funded by the European Commission (grant agreement number 101028625 — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) and led by Miguel Dos Santos at Uppsala University.

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