University of Oklahoma
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2019
Auburn, Alabama, United States of America
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    Essays on the Interpretation of Decision Theory
    Dissertation, University of Oklahoma. 2019.
    Decision theory aims at explaining and predicting rational choice behavior. But ample empirical evidence suggests that descriptively, people’s actual choices do not conform to its predictions in various ways. Some of the counter-evidence, such as anomaly cases proposed by Amartya Sen, challenges even the normative adequacy of decision theory. My dissertation defends it as a normative theory while also offering a novel explanation of why it fails descriptively. Contrary to the Sen-style critique,…Read more