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Title

Evidence, Decision and Causality

Publisher

Cambridge University Press 02.2017.

Publication Date

2017

Language

English

ISBN 10

1316641546

ISBN 13

9781316641545

Binding

Softcover

Condition

Gut

Weight

423 grams

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Most philosophers agree that causal knowledge is essential to decision-making: agents should choose from the available options those that probably cause the outcomes that they want. This book argues against this theory and in favour of evidential or Bayesian decision theory, which emphasises the symptomatic value of options over their causal role. It examines a variety of settings, including economic theory, quantum mechanics and philosophical thought-experiments, where causal knowledge seems to make a practical difference. The arguments make novel use of machinery from other areas of philosophical inquiry, including first-person epistemology and the free will debate. The book also illustrates the applicability of decision theory itself to questions about the direction of time and the special epistemic status of agents.

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Arif Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

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