Publications [#351475] of Vincent Conitzer

Conference articles PUBLISHED

1. Oesterheld, C; Conitzer, V, Extracting Money from Causal Decision Theorists, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 71 no. 4 (October, 2021), pp. 701-716 [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/19)

   Abstract:
   Newcomb s problem has spawned a debate about which variant of expected utility maximisation (if any) should guide rational choice. In this paper, we provide a new argument against what is probably the most popular variant: causal decision theory (CDT). In particular, we provide two scenarios in which CDT voluntarily loses money. In the first, an agent faces a single choice and following CDT s recommendation yields a loss of money in expectation. The second scenario extends the first to a diachronic Dutch book against CDT.