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Title Newcomb's problem / edited by Arif Ahmed.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.


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Newcomb's problem is a controversial paradox of decision theory. It is easily explained and easily understood, and there is a strong chance that most of us have actually faced it in some form or other. And yet it has proven as thorny and intractable a puzzle as much older and better-known philosophical problems of consciousness, scepticism and fatalism. It brings into very sharp and focused disagreement several long-standing philosophical theories on practical rationality, on the nature of free will, and on the direction and analysis of causation. This volume introduces readers to the nature of Newcomb's problem, and ten chapters by leading scholars present the most recent debates around the problem and analyse its ramifications for decision theory, metaphysics, philosophical psychology and political science. Their chapters highlight the status of Newcomb's problem as a live and continuing issue in modern philosophy.
ISBN 9781316847893 (ebook)
9781107180277 (hardback)
9781316632161 (paperback)
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Series Classic philosophical arguments.
Classic philosophical arguments.
Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online.
Subject Game theory.
Choice (Psychology)
Decision making.
Alt author Ahmed, Arif, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007093596.
Descript 1 online resource (233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Media computer c
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Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2018).
Newcomb's problem is a controversial paradox of decision theory. It is easily explained and easily understood, and there is a strong chance that most of us have actually faced it in some form or other. And yet it has proven as thorny and intractable a puzzle as much older and better-known philosophical problems of consciousness, scepticism and fatalism. It brings into very sharp and focused disagreement several long-standing philosophical theories on practical rationality, on the nature of free will, and on the direction and analysis of causation. This volume introduces readers to the nature of Newcomb's problem, and ten chapters by leading scholars present the most recent debates around the problem and analyse its ramifications for decision theory, metaphysics, philosophical psychology and political science. Their chapters highlight the status of Newcomb's problem as a live and continuing issue in modern philosophy.
ISBN 9781316847893 (ebook)
9781107180277 (hardback)
9781316632161 (paperback)
Series Classic philosophical arguments.
Classic philosophical arguments.
Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online.
Subject Game theory.
Choice (Psychology)
Decision making.
Alt author Ahmed, Arif, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007093596.

Subject Game theory.
Choice (Psychology)
Decision making.
Descript 1 online resource (233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2018).
Newcomb's problem is a controversial paradox of decision theory. It is easily explained and easily understood, and there is a strong chance that most of us have actually faced it in some form or other. And yet it has proven as thorny and intractable a puzzle as much older and better-known philosophical problems of consciousness, scepticism and fatalism. It brings into very sharp and focused disagreement several long-standing philosophical theories on practical rationality, on the nature of free will, and on the direction and analysis of causation. This volume introduces readers to the nature of Newcomb's problem, and ten chapters by leading scholars present the most recent debates around the problem and analyse its ramifications for decision theory, metaphysics, philosophical psychology and political science. Their chapters highlight the status of Newcomb's problem as a live and continuing issue in modern philosophy.
Alt author Ahmed, Arif, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007093596.
ISBN 9781316847893 (ebook)
9781107180277 (hardback)
9781316632161 (paperback)
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