Table of Contents

Introduction Arif Ahmed; 1. Does Newcomb's problem Actually Exist? José Luis Bermúdez; 2. Newcomb's problem, rationality and restraint Chrisoula Andreou; 3. The 'why ain'cha rich' argument Arif Ahmed; 4. Epistemic time bias in Newcomb's problem Melissa Fusco; 5. Newcomb's problem is everyone's problem: making political and economic decisions when behavior is interdependent Robert Grafstein; 6. Success-first decision theories Preston Greene; 7. Deliberation and stability in Newcomb's problem James M. Joyce; 8. 'Click!' bait for causalists Huw Price and Yang Liu; 9. Game theory and decision theory (causal and evidential) Robert Stalnaker; 10. Diagnosing Newcomb's problem with causal graphs Reuben Stern.

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This volume introduces and collects the latest thinking on a controversial paradox of decision theory, Newcomb's problem.

About the Author

Arif Ahmed is University Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Saul Kripke (2007), Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Reader's Guide (2010), and Evidence, Decision and Causality (2014), and the editor of Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010).