General-purpose institutional decision-making heuristics: the case of decision-making under deep uncertainty

Journal article

Recent work in judgement and decision-making has stressed that institutions, like individuals, often rely on decision-making heuristics. But most of the institutional decision-making heuristics studied to date are highly firm- and industry-specific. This contrasts to the individual case, where many heuristics are general-purpose rules suitable for a wide range of decision problems. Are there also general-purpose heuristics for institutional decision-making? In this article, I argue that a number of methods recently developed for decision-making under deep uncertainty have a good claim to be understood as general-purpose decision-making heuristics suitable for a broad range of institutional decision problems.

Authors: Thorstad, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Journal: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
• Publication date: 2025-10-21
• Acceptance date: 2022-08-13
• DOI: 10.1086/722307
• EISSN: 1464-3537
• ISSN: 0007-0882
• Language: English