Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spohn
Institution: Universität Konstanz
Abstract
The problem of dynamic choice is the problem how to plan and to behave rationally when envisaging to get into decision situations in which
one may have arbitrarily changed beliefs and desires and not only, as traditionally assumed, beliefs changed through information. My proposal
will be to solve this very general problem by representing decision situations by so-called reflexive decision models that contain not only
action (and chance) nodes, but also decision nodes and thus represent the agent's thoughts about her possible future situations. The proposal
will develop many intricate details of the appertaining theory. And it will argue that no less will do. Thereby it will integrate a wide
variety of ideas, models, and literature into one unified account: on time preferences, endogenous preference change, sophisticated choice,
(pre-)commitment, self-control, resolute choice, etc. And it will be applicable to new phenomena hitherto hardly considered. This theory of
reflexive rationality will have consequences for social contexts as well, i.e., for game theory, where it leads to a new kind of equilibria,
so-called dependency equilibria, and their appertaining theory. It will thus as well be able to lay foundations to an account of so-called
joint or we-intentions. All this is to be written down in a comprehensive research monograph that is still in the making.
Projektrelevante Veröffentlichungen
Olsen, N. S. (2014). Making Ranking Theory Useful for Psychology of
Reasoning. Doctoral dissertation, University of Konstanz.
Spohn, W. (2012).
The Laws of Belief. Ranking Theory and its Philosophical Applications. Oxford: University Press.
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Projekt "Reason Relations, Argumentation, and Conditionals: Applying Ranking Theory to Psychology of Reasoning"
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