Evidential Decision Theory is a radical theory of rational decision-making. It recommends that instead of thinking about what your decisions *cause*, you should think about what they *reveal*. This Element explains in simple terms why thinking in this way makes a big difference, and argues that doing so makes for *better* decisions. An appendix gives an intuitive explanation of the measure-theoretic foundations of Evidential Decision Theory.
"Highly recommended.... extremely useful." Linguist ListIn some languages, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker...
Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before...
The book presents ground-breaking research on evidentiality and epistemic modality. The theoretical papers address inferential evidence and challengeability. The descriptive papers mostly follow a...