Newcomb's Problem

Book Overview

Newcomb's problem is a controversial paradox of decision theory. It is easily explained and easily understood, and there is a strong chance that most of us have actually faced it in some form or other. And yet it has proven as thorny and intractable a puzzle as much older and better-known philosophical problems of consciousness, scepticism and fatalism. It brings into very sharp and focused disagreement several long-standing philosophical theories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107180279
• ISBN13: 9781107180277
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"