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A note on the kinematics of preference
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This article is published in Erkenntnis.The article was published on 1977-01-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preference & Ontology (information science).read more
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Background to Qualitative Decision Theory
Jon Doyle,Richmond H. Thomason +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of the field of qualitative decision theory: its motivating tasks and issues, its antecedents, and its prospects is provided.
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Does Practical deliberation Crowd Out Self-Prediction?
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that practical deliberation need not crowd out self-prediction and that assigning probabilities to the options among which one is choosing is futile since such probabilities could be of no possible use in choice.
Bayesian Nets Are All There Is To Causal Dependence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the philosophical basics of two theories of causation, namely the theory of Clark Glymour, Peter Spirtes, and Richard Scheines, and their own theory, published since 1978 in a somewhat irregular way.
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Self-knowledge, Uncertainty, and Choice
TL;DR: In this paper, the British economist G. L. Shackle discusses three problems in the theory of choice, problems arising from questions of where and when we can choose at all, or see any point in choosing.
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The Logic of Decision
TL;DR: This book proposes new foundations for the Bayesian principle of rational action, and goes on to develop a new logic of desirability and probabtility.
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A Simultaneous Axiomatization of Utility and Subjective Probability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to the mathematical foundations of the model for utility theory developed by Richard Jeffrey in The Logic of Decision, and state and interpret an existence theorem for numerical utilities and subjective probabilities.
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Functions resembling quotients of measures
TL;DR: In this paper, a generalization of the concept of expected or average value is proposed and all the set functions which resemble average values in certain ways and characterize in terms of an order structure alone those which are indeed of the form