NDLI: Decision Theory, Intelligent Planning and Counterfactuals

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Shaffer, Michael John
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The ontology of decision theory has been subject to considerable debate in the past, and discussion of just how we ought to view decision problems has revealed more than one interesting problem, as well as suggested some novel modifications of classical decision theory. In this paper it will be argued that Bayesian, or evidential, decision-theoretic characterizations of decision situations fail to adequately account for knowledge concerning the causal connections between acts, states, and outcomes in decision situations, and so they are incomplete. Second, it will be argues that when we attempt to incorporate the knowledge of such causal connections into Bayesian decision theory, a substantial technical problem arises for which there is no currently available solution that does not suffer from some damning objection or other. From a broader perspective, this then throws into question the use of decision theory as a model of human or machine planning.
Starting Page	61
Ending Page	92
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09246495
Journal	Minds and Machines
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728641
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Artificial intelligence Bayesianism Causality Conditionals Counterfactuals Decision theory Deliberation Probabilities Rationality Utility Planning Systems Theory, Control Interdisciplinary Studies Philosophy of Mind Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Artificial Intelligence

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