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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 289–306.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Arif Ahmed The essay presents a novel counterexample to Causal Decision Theory (CDT). Its interest is that it generates a case in which CDT violates the very principles that motivated it in the first place. The essay argues that the objection applies to all extant formulations of CDT...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Joseph Y. Halpern PROBABILITY AND CONDITIONALS: BELIEF REVISION AND RATIONAL DECISION. Edited by Ellery Eells and Brian Skyrms. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 207 Cornell University 2000 Adams, E. 1966 . “Probability and the Logic of Conditionals.” In Aspects...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Rachael Briggs It is a platitude among decision theorists that agents should choose their actions so as to maximize expected value. But exactly how to define expected value is contentious. Evidential decision theory (henceforth EDT), causal decision theory (henceforth CDT), and a theory proposed...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Mirek Janusz THE FOUNDATIONS OF CAUSAL DECISION THEORY. By James M. Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 268. Cornell University 2001 Anderson, Elizabeth, 1993 . Value in Ethics and Economics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Jeffrey, Richard, 1983...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 425–427.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Robert Sugden EQUILIBRIUM AND RATIONALITY: GAME THEORY REVISID BY DECISION RULES. By Paul Weirich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 235. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVEWS consistency and organic character of his political philosophy. ERIN KELLY Tujis University...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 93–114.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Andy Egan Cornell University 2007 Some Counterexamples
to Causal Decision Theory
Andy Egan
Australian National University/University of Michigan
Many philosophers have been converted to causal decision theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
... to causal beliefs, and one-boxers to evidential beliefs. The essay notes that a similar issue can arise when the modality in question is chance, rather than causation. In this case, the conflict is between decision rules based on credences guided solely by chances, and rules based on credences guided...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 379–428.
Published: 01 October 2014
...J. Robert G. Williams Revisionary theories of logic or truth require revisionary theories of mind. This essay outlines nonclassically based theories of rational belief, desire, and decision making, singling out the supervaluational family for special attention. To see these nonclassical theories...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 January 2019
... argue against this consensus. I adduce a variety of data that I argue can best be accounted for if we treat Wittgenstein sentences as being classically inconsistent. This creates a puzzle, since there is decisive reason to think that ⌜Might p⌝ is consistent with ⌜Not p⌝. How can it also be that ⌜Might p...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Can We Do?” Journal of Philosophy 60 : 435 -445. Davidson, Donald. 1963 . “Actions, Reasons, and causes.” Journal of Philosophy 60 : 685 -700. Gibbard, Alan, and William Harper. 1978 . “Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Value.” In Foundations and Applications of Decision...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 657–661.
Published: 01 October 2013
...): agents have decisive reasons to do what they are morally required to do. 2) Nonimpersonal Reasons (NIR): agents have some fundamentally nonimpersonal reasons that sometimes provide them with sufficient reasons not to bring about the best overall state of affairs. 3) Consequentialist Moral...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 611–614.
Published: 01 October 2001
... decisions.
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BOOK REVIEWS
The many critics of legislation receive different responses from Waldron,
but those responses share a common theme. Legislation, and majority enact-
ment of it, he insists, is both necessary and principled...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 27–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
...-Envelope Paradox. Analysis 62 : 155 -57. Chernoff, Herman, and Lincoln E. Moses. 1959 . Elementary Decision Theory . New York: Wiley. Clark, M., and N. Shackel. 2000 . The Two-Envelope Paradox. Mind 109 : 415 -42. Conway, John. 1976 . On Numbers and Games . London: Academic Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 545–581.
Published: 01 October 2000
.... Rousseau’s general will, I shall argue, is the
totality of unrescinded decisions made by a community-that is, of
an association of individuals contractually constituted as a “moral
and collective body”-when its deliberation is subject to certain
constraints.’
The interpretation of Rousseau...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 230–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
...L. A. Paul [email protected] Pettigrew Richard , Choosing for Changing Selves . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 245 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Choosing brings change. A major life choice, a “big decision,” as Edna Ullmann-Margalit termed...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 383–421.
Published: 01 July 2011
... deliberation to be.5 On the standard model, deliberation
consists in comparing alternatives with a view to making a decision. But
Hardie struggles to find evidence in Aristotle’s discussion of deliberation
in Nicomachean Ethics (EN ) 3, 3 that making a decision essentially involves
making a choice between...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 527–575.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., it follows that in these cases an agent ought to be probabilistically incoherent. In section 4, I present the accuracy-dominance argument for PROBABILISM in more explicit decision-theoretic terms. In decision theory, we can sometimes argue that an act or act-type is rationally required by showing...
FIGURES
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 435–439.
Published: 01 July 2016
... both the beginning (chaps. 1–2) and end (chaps. 7–9) of the book. I cannot review all of Laden's arguments here; instead, I will focus on the two major points that I found to be most problematic. The first of these points concerns the relation between reasoning and decision making. As we have seen...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 169–206.
Published: 01 April 2015
... between A and B in conflict cases. In this article, I defend a skeptical view. I seriously doubt that the Lottery Requirement is true. Where equal claims conflict and all else is equal, a lottery may be a pragmatically effective way to arrive at a decision; and it may be psychologically beneficial for us...
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