Extracting Money from Causal Decision Theorists.
Newcomb's problem has spawned a debate about which variant of expected utility maximisation (if any) should guide rational choice. In this paper, we provide a new argument against what is probably the most popular variant: causal decision theory (CDT). In particular, we provide two scenarios in whic...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 71; no. 4; pp. 1 - 17 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2021
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