TY - CHAP
T1 - Decision Theory
AU - Steele, Katie
AU - Orri Steffansson, H.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Decision theory is concerned with the reasoning underlying an agents choices, whether this is a mundane choice between taking the bus or getting a taxi, or a more far-reaching choice about whether to pursue a demanding political career. (Note that agent here stands for an entity, usually an individual person, that is capable of deliberation and action.) Standard thinking is that what an agent does on any given occasion is completely determined by her beliefs and desires/values, but this is not uncontroversial, as will be noted below. In any case, decision theory is as much a theory of beliefs, desires and other relevant attitudes as it is a theory of choice; what matters is how these various attitudes (call them preference attitudes) cohere together.
AB - Decision theory is concerned with the reasoning underlying an agents choices, whether this is a mundane choice between taking the bus or getting a taxi, or a more far-reaching choice about whether to pursue a demanding political career. (Note that agent here stands for an entity, usually an individual person, that is capable of deliberation and action.) Standard thinking is that what an agent does on any given occasion is completely determined by her beliefs and desires/values, but this is not uncontroversial, as will be noted below. In any case, decision theory is as much a theory of beliefs, desires and other relevant attitudes as it is a theory of choice; what matters is how these various attitudes (call them preference attitudes) cohere together.
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 1096-5054
VL - 82
SP - 41 pages
BT - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A2 - null, Edward N. Zalta
PB - Stanford University
CY - Stanford
ER -