Sobel, Jordan Howard <br/><br/>
Taking chances:  essays on rational choice/ 
Jordan Howard Sobel. 
 - Cambridge, UK  New York:  Cambridge University Press,  1994. 
 - x, 376 p.:  ill.;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521416353 (hc) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93004800 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB94-41769 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bayesian statistical decision theory.<br/>Statistical decision<br/>Statistique bayésienne.<br/>Décision, prise de (Statistique).
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>519  / S677t