Taking chances: essays on rational choice/ Jordan Howard Sobel.
Series: Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theoryPublication details: Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: x, 376 p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN:- 0521416353 (hc)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index.
Utility theory and the Bayesian paradigm -- Newcomblike problems -- Not every prisoners' dilemma is a Newcomb problem -- Some versions of Newcomb's problem are prisoners' dilemmas -- Infallible predictors -- Kent Bach on good arguments -- Maximizing and prospering -- Notes on decision theory: old wine in new bottles -- Partition theorems for causal decision theories -- Expected ulitities and rational actions and choices -- Maximization, stability of decision, and actions in accordance with reason -- Useful intentions -- The need for coercion -- Hyperrational games -- Utility maximizers in iterated prisoners' dilemmas -- Backward induction arguments: a paradox regained .
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