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  1. Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Jeffrey Helzner

  2. Department of Philosophy, Baker Hall 135, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213–3890, US

    Horacio Arló Costa

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Costa, H.A., Helzner, J. More foundations of the decision sciences: introduction. Synthese 187, 1–10 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-0021-7

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