Some Counterexamples to Causal Decision Theory

2007/01/01 by Andy Egan · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy and Theoretical Science

paper · pdf · doi:10.1215/00318108-2006-023

Abstract

Many philosophers (myself included) have been converted to causal decision theory by something like the following line of argument: Evidential decision theory endorses irrational courses of action in a range of examples, and endorses "an irrational policy of managing the news". 2 These are fatal problems for evidential decision theory.

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