Egan and agents: how evidential decision theory can deal with Egan's dilemma

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0661-0zbMATH Open1358.91034OpenAlexW1964751661MaRDI QIDQ514601FDOQ514601

Daniel Dohrn

Publication date: 9 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0661-0

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zbMATH Keywords

decision theorycausal decision theoryevidential decision theorychoiceEganNewcomb

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

Cites Work

• Conditioning and Intervening

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• Are Newcomb problems really decisions?
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