Jordan Howard Sobel

Taking Chances

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume of essays Sobel explores the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9780521416351
• ISBN-10: 0521416353
• Artikelnr.: 29338231

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. World Bayesianism: 1. Utility and the Bayesian paradigm
Part II. Problems for Evidential Decision Theory: 2. Newcomblike problems
3. Not every prisoners' dilemma is a Newcomb problem
4. Some versions of Newcomb's problem are prisoners' dilemmas
5. Infallible predictors
6. Kent Bach on good arguments
7. Maximising and prospering
Part III. Causal Decision Theory: 8. Notes on decision theory: old wine in new bottles
9. Partition theorems for causal decision theories
10. Expected utilities and rational actions and choices
11. Maximisation, stability of decision and actions in accordance with reason
12. Useful intentions
Part IV. Interacting Causal Maximisers: 13. The need for coercion
14. Hyperrational games
15. Utility maximizers in iterated prisoners' dilemmas
16. Backward induction arguments: a paradox regained
References
Index of names.