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...

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Published in:	Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 71; no. 4; pp. 1 - 17
Main Authors:	Oesterheld, Caspar, Conitzer, Vincent
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Oct2021
Subjects:	Causal models Decision theory Rational choice theory Expected utility Inconsistency (Logic)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost