The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory

by James M. Joyce

Book Overview

This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs about causal relations into account. The early chapters of the book introduce the nonspecialist to the rudiments of expected utility theory. The major technical advance offered by the book is a representation theorem that shows that both causal decision theory and its main rival, Richard Jeffrey's logic of decision, are both instances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521063566
• ISBN13: 9780521063562
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"