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Taking Chances Essays on Rational Choice

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ISBN-10: 0521038987

ISBN-13: 9780521038980

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jordan Howard Sobel

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The essays in this book develop and explore the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an action's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes. The author establishes principles for distinguishing options in decision problems and pays much attention to games--both isolated and iterated. The book also views critically Gauthier's revisionist ideas about maximizing rationality.
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Book details

List price: $62.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.298

Jordan Howard Sobel is Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala.

Preface
World Bayesianism
Utility and the Bayesian paradigm
Problems for Evidential Decision Theory
Newcomblike problems
Not every prisoners' dilemma is a Newcomb problem
Some versions of Newcomb's problem are prisoners' dilemmas
Infallible predictors
Kent Bach on good arguments
Maximising and prospering
Causal Decision Theory
Notes on decision theory: old wine in new bottles
Partition theorems for causal decision theories
Expected utilities and rational actions and choices
Maximisation, stability of decision and actions in accordance with reason
Useful intentions
Interacting Causal Maximisers
The need for coercion
Hyperrational games
Utility maximizers in iterated prisoners' dilemmas
Backward induction arguments: a paradox regained
References
Index of names