Causality, utility, and decision

DOI10.1007/BF01063891MaRDI QIDQ1159619zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ellery Eells

Publication date 1981

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01063891

zbMATH Keywords

principle of expected subjective utilityrational decision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Utility theory (91B16)

Cited in

(10)

• Self-Reinforcing and Self-Frustrating Decisions
• Approval-directed agency and the decision theory of Newcomb-like problems
• Newcomb's many solutions
• Steps towards causal Formal Concept Analysis
• Can interestingness measures be usefully visualized?
• Multicriteria Attractiveness Evaluation of Decision and Association Rules
• Conditioning, intervening, and decision
• Clark Glymour's responses to the contributions to the Synthese special issue ``Causation, probability, and truth: the philosophy of Clark Glymour
• A critique of benchmark theory
• Probabilism, representation theorems, and whether deliberation crowds out prediction

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