Decision Theory Foundations

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• September 10 (first half .... second half)  

• September 17

• September 24

• October 1

• October 8           Whiteboard notes

• October 15        Whiteboard Notes

Lecture notes

Warning: Extremely messy, illegible, and probably full of errors.  CAVEAT LECTOR

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

• Lecture 4

• Lecture 5

• Lecture 6

Recommended problems 

All problems are in the textbook by Wakker.

• Chapter 1

  • 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (pp.16-17)

  • 1.5.1 (p.25)

  • 1.5.2, 1.5.3 (p.27)

  • 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (p.29)

  • 1.6.7, 1.6.9, 1.6.11 (pp. 30-31)

• Chapter 2

  • 2.5.6 (p.57)

  • 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (p.58)

  • 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3 (p.65)

• Chapter 3

  • 3.3.6 (p.76)

  • 3.4.1 (p.77)

  • 3.5.1 (p.81)

• Chapter 4

  • 4.2.5, 4.2.6, 4.2.7, 4.2.8 (pp.102-103)

  • 4.5.2, 4.5.3 (p.110)

  • 4.6.2 (p.112)

  • 4.8.1, 4.8.2 (p.115)

  • 4.8.4, 4.8.5 (p.117)

  • 4.11.2 (p.133)

• Chapter 10

  • 10.4.2 (p.289)

  • 10.5.5 (p.297)

  • 10.9.1, 10.9.2 (pp.306-307)

  • 10.9.4 (p.308)

  • 10.10.1 (p.309)

  • 10.11.1 (p.310)

  • 10.12.2,10.12.3 (p.311-312)

• Chapter 11

  • 11.2.1 (p.321)

  • 11.4.1 (p.324)

  • 11.9.1 (p.337)

Other books

• Gilboa, Itzhak, Theory of Decision under Uncertainty.  (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

• Gilboa, Itzhak, Rational Choice.  (MIT Press, 2010)

• Peterson, Martin, An Introduction to Decision Theory, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

• Resnik, Michael, Choices -- An Introduction To Decision Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 1987)

• Markus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn, The Handbook of Rationality (2021, MIT Press) [FREE ONLINE]

• Giacomo Bonanno  Decision Making (2017) [FREE ONLINE]

Other online resources

• Article on Decision Theory in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

• Article on Social Choice Theory in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. 

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