Why ain’t evidentialists rich?
Abstract A common argument for favouring Evidential Decision Theory (EDT) over Causal Decision Theory (CDT) is that EDT has predictably higher expected returns in Newcomb Problems. But this does not show much. For almost any pair of theories, you can come up with cases where one does, on average, better than the other. Here I describe a case involving dynamic choice where EDT predictably does worse than CDT.
Authors
- Brian Weatherson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-141X)
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Analysis
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anae038
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00