The essays in this book develop and explore the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an action's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes. The author establishes principles for distinguishing options in decision problems and pays much attention to games--both isolated and iterated. The book also views critically Gauthier's revisionist ideas about maximizing rationality.
| ISBN-13: | 9780521038980 |
| ISBN-10: | 0521038987 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 2007-08-16 |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 392 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.30954583628 Pounds, Width: 0.98 Inches |
| Author: | Jordan Howard Sobel |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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