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46Thinking about Acting: Logical Foundations for Rational Decision Making - by John L. PollockPhilosophical Books 48 (3): 283-285. 2007.This book review describes and evaluates John Pollock's view about rational decision-making.
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134Decision instabilityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (4). 1985.In some decision problems adoption of an option furnishes evidence about the option's consequences. Rational decisions take account of that evidence, although it makes an option's adoption changes the option's expected utility.
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Comte et Mill sur l'économie politiqueRevue Internationale de Philosophie 52 (203): 79-93. 1998.This essay compares the views of Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on political economy.
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8PreferenceIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Decision theory relies on an account of preference. Some accounts are behaviorist and others are mentalistic. The account used affects the explanatory power of decision theory.
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34Review: The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory (review)Philosophical Books 41 (3): 217-219. 2002.Books reviewed: Joyce, J.M. The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory.
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54Value in Ethics and Economics (review)Philosophical Books 36 (2): 139-141. 1995.This review describes and evaluates a book by Elizabeth Anderson.
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56[Book review] equilibrium and rationality, game theory revised by decision rules (review)Ethics 109 (3): 684-686. 1998.This book represents a major contribution to game theory. It offers this conception of equilibrium in games: strategic equilibrium. This conception arises from a study of expected utility decision principles, which must be revised to take account of the evidence a choice provides concerning its outcome. The argument for these principles distinguishes reasons for action from incentives, and draws on contemporary analyses of counterfactual conditionals. The book also includes a procedure for ident…Read more
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72The Standard of LivingPhilosophical Books 29 (3): 180-183. 1988.This book review evaluate Amartya Sen's views about capabilities and the standard of living.
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86Auguste Comte: Trajectoires positivistes 1798–1998 (review)Isis 96 470-471. 2005.Auguste Comte's version of positivism shares logical positivism's aversion to metaphysics.
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72Decision When Desires Are UncertainBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 3 69-75. 1981.An agent in a decision problem may not know the goals that should guide selection of an option. Accommodating this ignorance require methods that supplement expected utility theory.
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47Self-Supporting Strategies and Equilibria in GamesAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 36 (4). 1999.A strategic equilibrium is a profile of strategies that are each self-supporting given the profile. Strategic equilibria exist in games without Nash equilibria.
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2Models of Decision-Making: Simplifying ChoicesCambridge University Press. 2014.The options in a decision problem generally have outcomes with common features. Putting aside the common features simplifies deliberations, but the simplification requires a philosophical justification that this book provides.
Areas of Specialization
| Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
| Philosophy of Probability |
Areas of Interest
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| General Philosophy of Science |