Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Many philosophers (myself included) have been converted to causal decision theory by something like the following line of argument: Evidential decision theory endorses irrational courses of action in a range of examples, and endorses “an irrational policy of managing the news”.2 These are fatal problems for evidential decision theory.
Source: The Philosophical Review
Author: Andy Egan
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2156578321