The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory

di James M. Joyce (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1999

This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs about causal relations into account. The early chapters of the book introduce the non-specialist to the rudiments of expected utility theory. The major technical advance offered by the book is a 'representation theorem' that shows that both causal decision theory and its main rival, Richard Jeffrey's logic of decision, are both instances of a more general conditional decision theory. The book solves a long-standing problem for Jeffrey's theory by showing for the first time how to obtain a unique utility and probability representation for preferences and judgements of comparative likelihood. The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true. The most complete and robust defence of causal decision theory available.

• Autore: James M. Joyce
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 284 p.
• Dimensioni: 238 x 160 mm
• Peso: 605 gr.
• EAN: 9780521641647

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