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

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0661-0MaRDI QIDQ514601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

zbMATH Keywords

decision theorycausal decision theoryevidential decision theorychoiceEganNewcomb

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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