{"product_id":"9780521641647","title":"Foundations of Causal Decision Theory","description":"This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs about causal relations into account. The early chapters of the book introduce the non-specialist to the rudiments of expected utility theory. The major technical advance offered by the book is a 'representation theorem' that shows that both causal decision theory and its main rival, Richard Jeffrey's logic of decision, are both instances of a more general conditional decision theory. The book solves a long-standing problem for Jeffrey's theory by showing for the first time how to obtain a unique utility and probability representation for preferences and judgements of comparative likelihood. The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true. The most complete and robust defence of causal decision theory available.","brand":"James M. Joyce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45780377600318,"sku":"9780521641647","price":5123.43,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780521641647.jpg?v=1707291799","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780521641647","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}