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Decision Theory A Brief Introduction 1994-08-19 Minor revisions 2005-08-23 Sven Ove Hansson Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm 1 Contents Preface ..........................................................................................................4 1. What is decision theory? ..........................................................................5 1.1 Theoretical questions about decisions .........................................5 1.2 A truly interdisciplinary subject...................................................6 1.3 Normative and descriptive theories..............................................6 1.4 Outline of the following†¦show more content†¦The demarcation of decisions.................................................................68 10.1 Unfinished list of alternatives ....................................................68 10.2 Indeterminate decision horizons ................................................69 11. Decision instability.................................................................................73 11.1 Conditionalized EU................................................... .................73 11.2 Newcomb s paradox ...................................................................74 11.3 Instability....................................................................................76 12. Social decision theory.............................................................................79 12.1 The basic insight ........................................................................79 12.2 Arrow s theorem .........................................................................81 References ....................................................................................................82 3 Preface This text is a non-technical overview of modern decision theory. 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