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Rational decision and causality / Ellery Eells.

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First published in 1982, Ellery Eells' original work on rational decision making had extensive implications for probability theorists, economists, statisticians and psychologists concerned with decision making and the employment of Bayesian principles. His analysis of the philosophical and psyc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Eells, Ellery (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Edition:Cambridge Philosophy Classics edition.
Series:Cambridge philosophy classics.
Subjects:
Bayesian statistical decision theory.
Utility theory.
Causation.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Preface to this edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bayesianism
  • Subjective expected utility
  • Foundations of subjective probability
  • Learning
  • 2 The philosophical and psychological significance of Bayesian decision theory
  • A theory of human rationality
  • A theory of human behavior
  • Foundations and applications of subjective probability
  • 3 Bayesian decision theories: some details
  • Ramsey
  • Savage
  • Jeffrey
  • Existence theorem
  • Uniqueness theorem
  • A comparison
  • 4 The counterexamples
  • 5 Causal decision theories
  • Gibbard and Harper
  • Skyrms
  • Lewis
  • Discussion
  • 6 Common causes, reasons and symptomatic acts
  • 7 A general defense of PMCEU
  • The ''tickle defense''
  • The more general setting
  • The weaker assumptions
  • Causes, reasons and probability
  • The general defense
  • 8 Newcomb's paradox
  • Appendix 1 Logic
  • Appendix 2 Probability
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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