Two boxing is not the rational option

In the standard Newcomb scenario two-boxing is not the rational act and, in general, in Newcomb-style cases the ‘two-boxing’ choice is not the rational act. Hence any decision theory which recommends two-boxing is unacceptable.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Noonan, Harold
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley 2015
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35740/

Similar Items

Two-boxing is irrational
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2015)

Plenitude, pluralism and neo-Lockean persons
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2015)

The adequacy of genuine modal realism
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2013)

Moderate monism, persistence and sortal concepts
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2007)

Bird against the Humeans
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2010)

The thinking animal problem and personal pronoun revisionism
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2010)

A flaw in Kripke's modal argument?
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2012)

Presentism and eternalism
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2013)

Personal pronoun revisonism - asking the right question
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2012)

A flaw in Sider's vagueness argument for unrestricted merelogical composition
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2010)

The complex and simple views of personal identity
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2011)

Perdurance, location and classical mereology
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2009)

Moderate monism, sortal concepts and relative identity
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2013)

Presentism and actualism
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2018)

The challenge to nihilism
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2019)

The new Aristotelian essentialists
by: Noonan, Harold
Published: (2018)

Strategies used by ESL learners in processing rational cloze with and without options / Loh Yoke Len
by: Loh, Yoke Len
Published: (2004)

Against strong pluralism
by: Noonan, Harold W.
Published: (2015)

The passage of time
by: Noonan, Harold W.
Published: (2015)

Additional reflections on Putnam, Wright and Brains in Vats
by: Noonan, Harold W.
Published: (2016)

Tollensing van Inwagen
by: Noonan, Harold W.
Published: (2014)

Modal realism, still at your convenience
by: Noonan, Harold, et al.
Published: (2017)

An Efficient Inventory Rationing Strategy for Systems with Two Demand Classes and Backordering
by: Liu, S., et al.
Published: (2015)

On the obligation to be rational
by: Shackel, Nicholas
Published: (2004)

Option & Option Strategies
by: Mehta, Mansi
Published: (2012)

Rationality and the unit of action
by: Woodard, Christopher
Published: (2011)

Belief and bounded rationality
by: Jago, Mark
Published: (2006)

Rationing in Health Care
by: Williams, L., et al.
Published: (2012)

The invertebrates (box)
by: Majer, Jonathan
Published: (2008)

LightBOX
by: Sithravel, Ratnakala, et al.
Published: (2017)

Out of the Box
by: Abd Razak, Dzulkifli
Published: (2003)

Determination of symmetry groups of 2-generator 2- groups of class two and their rationalization in molecular vibration
by: Aris, Nor'aini, et al.
Published: (2008)

Effective Entrepreneurial Choice: The Role of Rationality and Non-Rationality in Three Entrepreneurs Success Stories
by: Chong, Anne Michele, Siang Yoon
Published: (2007)

Rationalities and non-rationalities in clinical encounters: Methadone maintenance treatment and hormone replacement therapy
by: Roberts, C., et al.
Published: (2009)

Rationalizing the permissibility of mosque decoration
by: Omer, Spahic
Published: (2016)

Efficient Solution of Rational Conics
by: Cremona, John E, et al.
Published: (2001)

Islam, economic rationalism and accounting
by: Sulaiman, Maliah, et al.
Published: (2001)

Minimum denominator of rational function
by: Sulaeman, Erwin
Published: (2011)

Rational quadratic Bézier spirals
by: Azhar Ahmad,, et al.
Published: (2018)