Causality, utility, and decision

DOI10.1007/BF01063891zbMath0476.03016OpenAlexW2060337114MaRDI QIDQ1159619

Ellery Eells

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01063891

zbMATH Keywords

principle of expected subjective utilityrational decision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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