... whether that theory is true, are you rationally required to answer ‘yes’? (2) Suppose that you face a problem in which (as in Newcomb's problem) one of your options – call it ‘taking two boxes’ – causally dominates your only other option. Are you rationally required to take two boxes? Those of us...

... for both sides, complacency about Newcomb’s problem is discouraged. Newcomb's problem Newcomb Problem decision theory causal decision theory evidential decision theory Professor Causey (in full tweed) and Ms. Neutra (a potential donor) walk down the hall of a gleaming research building...

... explanation suggests that the B-theory, which rejects temporal passage, has substantial revisionary implications concerning our attitudes toward past and future experience. temporal value asymmetry future bias Newcomb's problem But would Tim be right to so reason? Most of us, I think, will judge that he...

...José Luis Bermúdez Abstract According to David Lewis, the prisoner's dilemma (PD) and Newcomb's problem (NP) are really just one dilemma in two different forms (Lewis 1979). Lewis's argument for this conclusion is ingenious and has been widely accepted. However, it is flawed. As this paper shows...

... connotation of causation guarantees the earlier to later direction of causation, but shows that it cannot by discussing Newcomb's problem in decision theory. Shows that Mellor's attempt to rule out causal loops, and thus backwards causation, fails. Concludes by discussing the ways in which presentism might...

.... This article gives an account of the following paradoxes: fearing fictions, the surprise test paradox, Pascal's Wager, Pollock's Ever Better wine, Newcomb's problem, the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, Kavka's paradoxes of deterrence, backward inductions, the bottle imp, the preface paradox, Moore's problem...

.... They act as though believing that others' behavior is correlated with (but not caused by) their own disposition to conform, or not. Standard game theory excludes such ‘folly’. Yet it can rationalize ‘rule utilitarian’ cooperative behaviour. Comparisons are made with Newcomb's problem and related attempts...

...-justifying non-optimal decisions donot exist. Correction for unacceptable mistakes is an important factor in an explanation of a decision’s comprehensive rationality. It does not lead to one-boxing in Newcomb’s problem or to deliberations and plans with irrational steps but does lead to possibilist versions...

... and Newcomb's Problem are essentially one and the same problem. Several authors have observed that Prisoners' Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem are related—for instance, in that both involve controversial appeals to dominance. ¹ But to call them “related” is an understatement. Considered as puzzles...

... talk about past individuals; and how accounts of causation relations can be formulated. Part I concludes with a discussion of the direction of time and causation, the decision‐theoretic problem known as ‘Newcomb's problem’, and the possibility of time travel and causal loops. Part II focuses...