TY - BOOK ID - 17949471 TI - The foundations of causal decision theory PY - 2008 VL - *4 SN - 0521641640 0521063566 1107173108 9786611383879 0511398093 0511398921 0511498497 1281383872 0511396597 0511401043 0511397321 9780521063562 9780521641647 9780511397325 9780511401046 9780511498497 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Decision making. KW - Besluitvorming KW - Besluitvormingsanalyse KW - Besluitvormingsprocessen KW - Deciding KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision making KW - Decision processes KW - Decision-making KW - Décision [Prise de ] KW - Décision [Théorie de la ] KW - Making decisions KW - Management decisions KW - Management--Beslissingen KW - Management--Besluitvorming KW - Management--Decision making KW - Prise de décision KW - Théorie de la décision KW - Prise de décision KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Choice (Psychology) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17949471 AB - 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 non-specialist 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. The book solves a long-standing problem for Jeffrey's theory by showing for the first time how to obtain a unique utility and probability representation for preferences and judgements of comparative likelihood. The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true. The most complete and robust defence of causal decision theory available. ER -