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Extracting money from causal decision theorists
- Abstract:
- Newcomb’s problem has spawned a debate about which variant of expected utility maximisation (if any) should guide rational choice. In this paper, we provide a new argument against what is probably the most popular variant: causal decision theory (CDT). In particular, we provide two scenarios in which CDT voluntarily loses money. In the first, an agent faces a single choice and following CDT’s recommendation yields a loss of money in expectation. The second scenario extends the first to a diachronic Dutch book against CDT.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/pq/pqaa086
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Philosophical Quarterly More from this journal
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 701-716
- Article number:
- pqaa086
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-01-01
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1467-9213
- ISSN:
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0031-8094
- Language:
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English
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1505746
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pubs:1505746
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2023-08-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Oesterheld and Conitzer
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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