A foundation for causal decision theory

Towards a Logical Foundation for Qualitative Decision Theory

The purpose of this abstract is to motivate and outline a logical theory of preference that, arose from some very concrete and practical considerations. For some time now [6], we have been working on a formal model for representing and processing (such a.s laying out) structured electronic documents. One of the sub-problems in our project w&s designing a declarative language in wMch graphic and...

Argumentation as a practical foundation for decision theory

This thesis proposes a methodology for constructing decision making models in decision theory. The method allows decision makers to express their knowledge, beliefs and doubts about decision situations and derive from them a) decision tables, b) utility functions and c) probability distributions, from which optimal decisions can then be computed. The work expounded here is based on two seemingl...

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Conditionals in causal decision theory

This paper explores the possibility that causal decision theory can be formulated in terms of probabilities of conditionals. It is argued that a generalized Stalnaker semantics in combination with an underlying branching time structure not only provides the basis for a plausible account of the semantics of indicative conditionals, but also that the resulting conditionals have properties that ma...

Causal Decision Theory and EPR correlations