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Newcomb's Problem
Contributor(s): Ahmed, Arif (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1316632164     ISBN-13: 9781316632161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General
Dewey: 519.542
LCCN: 2018029219
Series: Classic Philosophical Arguments
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.4" W x 9.7" L (1.00 lbs) 240 pages
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ahmed, Arif: - Arif Ahmed is University Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Saul Kripke (2007), Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Reader's Guide (2010), and Evidence, Decision and Causality (2014), and the editor of Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010).
 
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