According to Fox’s (2000) recent history of the Great Depression in Victoria, efforts to assist the unemployed were characterised by an overarching desire to ‘remoralise’ unemployed people and promote a ‘reinvigorated work ethic’. Book reviewer, Brian Dickey summarises Fox’s argument saying that ‘the notion that the unemployed had lost their moral standing and hence their rights to full partici...

We present a qualitative, decision-theoretic account for statements of the form: "You ought to do A, if C". We show that adding a qualitative causal theory (in the form of a graph) as part of an epistemic state is sufficient to facilitate the analysis of action sequences, their consequences, their interaction with observations, their expected utilities and, hence, the assertability of condition...