Donald Davidson’s second publication of any kind, preceded only by his brief article ‘Why Study Philosophy?’ (View Point, 2, 22-24). Davidson’s first ‘proper’ publication was in Philosophy of Science, 22, 1955, pp. 140-160. The present report is presumably a forerunner of the book he co-wrote with Patrick Suppes and Sidney Siegel – Decision-Making: An Experimental Approach. Stanford University Press, 1957. Worldcat lists copies of the report only at Stanford and University of Illinois-Chicago.
The Stanford Value Theory Project was one of the first sustained empirical investigations of Expected Utility Theory, the model dating back to Daniel Bernoulli (1700-82) that was formally developed by John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern in their book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, 1944.