The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521641647)

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 of a more general conditional decision theory. In providing the most complete and robust defense of causal decision theory the book will be of interest to a broad range of readers in philosophy, economics, psychology, mathematics, and artificial intelligence.

Author: James M. Joyce
ISBN-10: 0521641640
ISBN-13: 9780521641647
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/13/1999
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.29w x 0.90d