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Evolutionary Game Theory
Häftad, 2023
276 kr
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Evolutionary game theory originated in population biology from the realisation that frequency-dependent fitness introduced a strategic element into evolution. Since its development, evolutionary game theory has been adopted by many social scientists, and philosophers, to analyse interdependent …
Preference Change
Av David Strohmaier, Michael Messerli
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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For most of its history, decision theory has investigated the rational choices of humans under the assumption of static preferences. Human preferences, however, change. In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element …
The History and Methodology of Expected Utility
Av Ivan Moscati
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This Element offers an accessible but technically detailed review of expected utility theory (EU), which is a model of individual decision-making under uncertainty that is central for both economics and philosophy. The Element's approach falls between the history of ideas and economic methodology. …
Commitment and Resoluteness in Rational Choice
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Drawing and building on the existing literature, this Element explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect. Section 1 discusses interpersonal and intrapersonal Prisoner's Dilemma situations, and the possibility …
Rationality and Time Bias
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than later, and that our suffering lies in our past, rather than our future. Common sense suggests that some ways of caring about time are rational, and others are not, …
Opinion Pooling
Av Lee Elkin, Richard Pettigrew
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Disagreement is a common feature of a social world. For various reasons, however, we sometimes need to resolve a disagreement into a single set of opinions. This can be achieved by pooling the opinions of individuals that make up the group. In this Element, we provide an opinionated survey on some …
Small Probabilities and High Stakes
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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What price should you be willing to pay for a tiny probability of an astronomically large gain, or to avoid a tiny probability of an astronomically large loss? Should you be willing to pay any finite price, if the potential gains or losses are large enough? Fanaticism says you should, while …
The Measurement of Subjective Probability
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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Beliefs come in degrees, and we often represent those degrees with numbers. We might say, for example, that we are 90% confident in the truth of some scientific hypothesis, or only 30% confident in the success of some risky endeavour. But what do these numbers mean? What, in other words, is the …
Preference Change
Av David Strohmaier, Michael Messerli
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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For most of its history, decision theory has investigated the rational choices of humans under the assumption of static preferences. Human preferences, however, change. In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element …
The Measurement of Subjective Probability
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Beliefs come in degrees, and we often represent those degrees with numbers. We might say, for example, that we are 90% confident in the truth of some scientific hypothesis, or only 30% confident in the success of some risky endeavour. But what do these numbers mean? What, in other words, is the …
Opinion Pooling
Av Lee Elkin, Richard Pettigrew
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Disagreement is a common feature of a social world. For various reasons, however, we sometimes need to resolve a disagreement into a single set of opinions. This can be achieved by pooling the opinions of individuals that make up the group. In this Element, we provide an opinionated survey on some …
Rationality and Time Bias
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than later, and that our suffering lies in our past, rather than our future. Common sense suggests that some ways of caring about time are rational, and others are not, …
Rational Attitudes to Risk
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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While reviewing central approaches in the philosophical literature on risk-attitudes, this Element argues for two related pluralistic theses, one conceptual and one normative. The conceptual thesis is that different types of attitudes, some of which are desires and some of which are not, count as …
Rational Attitudes to Risk
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
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While reviewing central approaches in the philosophical literature on risk-attitudes, this Element argues for two related pluralistic theses, one conceptual and one normative. The conceptual thesis is that different types of attitudes, some of which are desires and some of which are not, count as …
Small Probabilities and High Stakes
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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What price should you be willing to pay for a tiny probability of an astronomically large gain, or to avoid a tiny probability of an astronomically large loss? Should you be willing to pay any finite price, if the potential gains or losses are large enough? Fanaticism says you should, while …
Epistemic Game Theory
Av Paolo Galeazzi, Eric Pacuit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element situates epistemic game theory at the intersection of decision theory, game theory, and interactive epistemology. It provides an overview and a critical assessment of some of the most classical results and contributions in the field: the epistemic characterization of Nash equilibrium, …
Judgment Aggregation
Av Franz Dietrich, Christian List
Inbunden, 2026
884 kr
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How can groups - e.g., committees, expert panels, collegial courts, legislatures, electorates - make coherent collective judgments on interconnected issues based on their members' individual judgments? The theory of judgment aggregation provides a general framework for studying this question, …
Judgment Aggregation
Av Franz Dietrich, Christian List
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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How can groups - e.g., committees, expert panels, collegial courts, legislatures, electorates - make coherent collective judgments on interconnected issues based on their members' individual judgments? The theory of judgment aggregation provides a general framework for studying this question, …
Bargaining Theory
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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The Nash bargaining problem provides a framework for analyzing problems where parties have imperfectly aligned interests. This Element reviews the parts of bargaining theory most important in philosophical applications, and to social contract theory in particular. It discusses rational choice …
Epistemic Game Theory
Av Paolo Galeazzi, Eric Pacuit m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element situates epistemic game theory at the intersection of decision theory, game theory, and interactive epistemology. It provides an overview and a critical assessment of some of the most classical results and contributions in the field: the epistemic characterization of Nash equilibrium, …
Evidential Decision Theory
Av Arif Ahmed
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Evidential Decision Theory is a radical theory of rational decision-making. It recommends that instead of thinking about what your decisions *cause*, you should think about what they *reveal*. This Element explains in simple terms why thinking in this way makes a big difference, and argues that …
Dutch Book Arguments
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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Our beliefs come in degrees. I'm 70% confident it will rain tomorrow, and 0.001% sure my lottery ticket will win. What's more, we think these degrees of belief should abide by certain principles if they are to be rational. For instance, you shouldn't believe that a person's taller than 6ft more …
Rational Choice Using Imprecise Probabilities and Utilities
Av Paul Weirich
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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An agent often does not have precise probabilities or utilities to guide resolution of a decision problem. I advance a principle of rationality for making decisions in such cases. To begin, I represent the doxastic and conative state of an agent with a set of pairs of a probability assignment and a …
Beyond Uncertainty
Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities
Av Katie Steele, H. Orri Stefánsson
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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The main aim of this Element is to introduce the topic of limited awareness, and changes in awareness, to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain reasoning. While it has long been of interest to economists and computer scientists, this topic has only recently been …
Money-Pump Arguments
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory by being cyclic. Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational. Suppose that you start with A. Then you should be willing to trade A for C and then C for B. But then, …
