Download or read book Savage Acts written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán and published by Estreno Plays. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rational Choice and Strategic Conflict written by Gabriel Frahm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is refreshing, innovative and important for several reasons. Perhaps most importantly, it attempts to reconcile game theory with one-person decision theory by viewing a game as a collection of one-person decision problems. As natural as this approach may seem, it is hard to find game theory books that really implement this view. This book is a wonderful exception, in which the transition between decision theory and game theory is both smooth and natural. It shows that decision theory and game theory can go—and, in fact, must go—hand in hand. The careful exposition, the many illustrative examples, the critical assessment of traditional game theory concepts, and the enlightening comparison with the subjectivistic approach advocated in this book, make it a pleasure to read and a must have for anyone interested in the foundations of decision theory and game theory." Andrés Perea (Maastricht University) "Gabriel Frahm's relatively nontechnical book is a bold synthesis of decision theory and game theory from a Bayesian or subjectivist perspective. It distinguishes between decisions, or one-person games, and games with two or more players, but Frahm argues that this distinction is not always necessary—the two kinds of games can be analyzed within a common theoretical framework. He models the dynamics of choice in several different settings (e.g., information may be complete or incomplete as well as perfect or imperfect), including one in which players look ahead and make farsighted calculations on which they base their choices. His book contains many provocative examples that illustrate the advantages of a unified theory of rational decision-making." Steven J. Brams (New York University)
Download or read book Evidence Decision and Causality written by Arif Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most philosophers agree that causal knowledge is essential to decision-making: agents should choose from the available options those that probably cause the outcomes that they want. This book argues against this theory and in favour of evidential or Bayesian decision theory, which emphasises the symptomatic value of options over their causal role. It examines a variety of settings, including economic theory, quantum mechanics and philosophical thought-experiments, where causal knowledge seems to make a practical difference. The arguments make novel use of machinery from other areas of philosophical inquiry, including first-person epistemology and the free will debate. The book also illustrates the applicability of decision theory itself to questions about the direction of time and the special epistemic status of agents.
Download or read book Rational Decision and Causality written by Ellery Eells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Ellery Eells' influential examination and analysis of theories of rational decision making.
Download or read book Betting on Theories written by Patrick Maher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major new contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. The author examines both Bayesian decision theory and confirmation theory, refining and elaborating the views of Ramsey and Savage. He argues that the most solid foundation for confirmation theory is to be found in decision theory, and he provides a decision-theoretic derivation of principles for how many probabilities should be revised over time. Professor Maher defines a notion of accepting a hypothesis, and then shows that it is not reducible to probability and that it is needed to deal with some important questions in the philosophy of science. A Bayesian decision-theoretic account of rational acceptance is provided together with a proof of the foundations for this theory. A final chapter shows how this account can be used to cast light on such vexing issues as verisimilitude and scientific realism.
Download or read book Acts Passed at the Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky written by Kentucky and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: public acts, local and private acts.
Download or read book Reasons without Persons written by Brian Hedden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time. On the standard view, personal identity over time plays a central role in thinking about rationality. This is because, on the standard view, there are rational norms for how a person's attitudes and actions at one time should fit with her attitudes and actions at other times, norms that apply within a person but not across persons. But these norms are problematic. They make what you rationally ought to believe or do depend on facts about your past that aren't part of your current perspective on the world, and they make rationality depend on controversial, murky metaphysical facts about what binds different instantaneous snapshots (or 'time-slices') into a single person extended in time. Hedden takes a different approach, treating the relationship between different time-slices of the same person as no different from the relationship between different people. For purposes of rational evaluation, a temporally extended person is akin to a group of people. The locus of rationality is the time-slice rather than the temporally extended agent. Taking an impersonal, time-slice-centric approach to rationality yields a unified approach to the rationality of beliefs, preferences, and actions where what rationality demands of you is solely determined by your evidence, with no special weight given to your past beliefs or actions.
Download or read book The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory written by James M. Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true.
Download or read book Instincts written by Norris Peery and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third in my series of four books dealing with Intelligence, Instincts, and Consciousness. The simple and truthful realization of what we are, and how we got to where we are within nature's world, is the ultimate truth that any philosophy could ever propose to know. It is ultimately the most powerful state that any human mind can ever attain. It is a true kind of nirvana. It is with this knowing state of mind that we can make ever-new beginnings and provide for a future where our chances are best for surviving whatever random hells that nature will with great certainty rise up against us. The fact that we might have to eventually face up to what we are as completely definable creatures in terms of a very complex organization of billions of very simple structures is not in anyway whatsoever a degradation of the truth of our humanity. Understanding what we are has led us to realize both the miraculous and morally good achievements of our kind, and also to an understanding of the basic nature of our more hidden ugly and evil actions.
Download or read book Foreign Assistance Act of 1971 written by United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Derivatives Regulation written by Philip McBride Johnson and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter century, Commodities Regulation has been recognized as the resource covering the derivatives marketplace. Today, Derivatives Regulation builds on that expertise, delivering the coverage professionals and practitioners need in order to stay current with this changing topic. Derivatives Regulation comprehensively covers the Commodity Exchange Act along with all other relevant aspects of the regulation of securities that have an impact on the derivatives markets. Derivatives Regulation is completely updated to cover the full range of emerging regulatory, reporting, and legal issues surrounding derivatives and related instruments, including: Distinguishing between regulated and unregulated derivatives�and knowing which rules to apply The significant roles of the SEC and the federal laws in regulating derivatives Meeting standards for exemption or other relief The workings of the derivatives markets and the rules applicable to trading Registration, reporting, and disclosure requirements applicable to commodities professionals Criteria for publicly traded futures and commodity options Rules governing unprofessional conduct, including the antifraud and anti-manipulation prohibitions Customer protections, the CFTC�s reparations program, arbitration programs, and private rights of action in the courts
Download or read book Altered Pathways written by David O. Rice and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of his writing career, Dave Rice has attempted to include an underlying theme of the continuing struggle between good and evil within the novels basic storyline. This is obvious in his fi rst novel with this underlying theme in Recovery the Hard Way. A story that describes the lifestyle of those souls that are addicted to drugs and the internal struggle they must endure to recover from addiction. This theme of good over evil is even more apparent in his second novel Justice for All which chronicles a transformation into an alternative lifestyle, and the moral implications that the central character must endure because of his career as a leader in the New World Church and the transformation. These and other literary works written by Dave Rice such as; Just a Chick on the Side, and The Women of Conjure, all have plots that contain an element of confl ict between good and evil. However, not one of his novels currently in publication goes to the extent of good challenging evil as that contained in his latest effort, Altered Pathways, which is based on evolutionary changes that have created what is known as a Serial Killer. Explore the ultimate confrontation of evil over good in the latest mystery novel by Dave Rice, Altered Pathways. It is a compelling psychological mystery that not only contains murder, but also contains the drama that is brought out in those that are preyed upon by this demon.
Download or read book Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering Big Data and Machine Learning Techniques written by Xiaofei He and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015. The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416 submissions. They deal with big data, neural networks, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and graphics, object detection, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, unsupervised learning and clustering, anomaly detection, semi-supervised learning.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning written by Norbert M. Seel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 3643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, educational psychologists and researchers have posited many theories to explain how individuals learn, i.e. how they acquire, organize and deploy knowledge and skills. The 20th century can be considered the century of psychology on learning and related fields of interest (such as motivation, cognition, metacognition etc.) and it is fascinating to see the various mainstreams of learning, remembered and forgotten over the 20th century and note that basic assumptions of early theories survived several paradigm shifts of psychology and epistemology. Beyond folk psychology and its naïve theories of learning, psychological learning theories can be grouped into some basic categories, such as behaviorist learning theories, connectionist learning theories, cognitive learning theories, constructivist learning theories, and social learning theories. Learning theories are not limited to psychology and related fields of interest but rather we can find the topic of learning in various disciplines, such as philosophy and epistemology, education, information science, biology, and – as a result of the emergence of computer technologies – especially also in the field of computer sciences and artificial intelligence. As a consequence, machine learning struck a chord in the 1980s and became an important field of the learning sciences in general. As the learning sciences became more specialized and complex, the various fields of interest were widely spread and separated from each other; as a consequence, even presently, there is no comprehensive overview of the sciences of learning or the central theoretical concepts and vocabulary on which researchers rely. The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the specific terms mostly used in the sciences of learning and its related fields, including relevant areas of instruction, pedagogy, cognitive sciences, and especially machine learning and knowledge engineering. This modern compendium will be an indispensable source of information for scientists, educators, engineers, and technical staff active in all fields of learning. More specifically, the Encyclopedia provides fast access to the most relevant theoretical terms provides up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the most important theories within the various fields of the learning sciences and adjacent sciences and communication technologies; supplies clear and precise explanations of the theoretical terms, cross-references to related entries and up-to-date references to important research and publications. The Encyclopedia also contains biographical entries of individuals who have substantially contributed to the sciences of learning; the entries are written by a distinguished panel of researchers in the various fields of the learning sciences.
Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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