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In past years, the traditional Bayesian theory of rational decision making, based on subjective calculations of expected utility, has faced powerful attack from philosophers such as David Lewis and Brian Skyrms, who advance an alternative causal decision theory. The test they present for the Bayesian is exemplified in the decision problem known as 'Newcomb's paradox' and in related decision problems and is held to support the prescriptions of the causal theory. As well as his conclusions, the concepts and methods of Professor Eells introduces in the course of his analyses have extensive implications, not solely for probability theorists narrowly conceived, but for economists, statisticians and psychologists concerned with decision making and the employment of Bayesian principles. They and their students will, in addition, find the early chapters of great use as a background and introduction to the subject as a whole.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Rational Decision and Causality
• Author: Ellery Eells
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780521110112
• ISBN: 0521110114
• ID: 02022165
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 141 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2009

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