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Evidential decision theory (1,300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

school of thought within decision theory which states that, when a rational agent is confronted with a set of possible actions, one should select the

Intentional stance (6,924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

you decide to treat the object whose behavior is to be predicted as a rational agent; then you figure out what beliefs that agent ought to have, given its

Causal decision theory (2,208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

school of thought within decision theory which states that, when a rational agent is confronted with a set of possible actions, one should select the

Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem (3,356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

M=qL'+(1-q)N'} in the expression in Axiom 4, and expand. For any VNM-rational agent (i.e. satisfying axioms 1–4), there exists a function u which assigns

Moral particularism (718 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

infer certain moral ideas. A key feature of rationality is that the rational agent maintains a consistent set of beliefs. In a moral sense, this means

Acceptability (1,622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"[a]cceptability with respect to a rational agent relies upon a notion of defense", with the complete set of arguments that a rational agent may accept being required

Instrumental convergence (2,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conquest. A rational agent will, by definition, choose whatever option will maximize its implicit utility function. Therefore a rational agent will trade

Pure inductive logic (4,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relational language to represent degrees of belief that should be held by a rational agent. Conditional probability values represent degrees of belief based on

Newcomb's paradox (2,306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

only box B, by appealing to a situation he argues is analogous – a rational agent in a deterministic universe deciding whether or not to cross a potentially

Prospect theory (6,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their individual situation. Thus, rather than making decisions like a rational agent (i.e using expected utility theory and choosing the maximum value),

Probabilistic logic (1,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

epistemic operator K that represents the state of knowledge that a rational agent has about the world. Probabilities are then defined over the resulting

Dutch book (939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the bookmaker. In this case, the Dutch book arguments show that any rational agent must be willing to accept some kinds of risks, i.e. to make uncertain

Economics of defense (2,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spending can be considered as a public good. The government acts as a rational agent, trying to maximise the welfare of society by taking into account the

Naturalization of intentionality (1,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

you decide to treat the object whose behavior is to be predicted as a rational agent; then you figure out what beliefs that agent ought to have, given its

Evolutionary ethics (2,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

agents. "Regardless of why one has a given trait, the question for a rational agent is always: is it right for me to exercise it, or should I instead renounce

Rational choice theory (7,837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the conclusion that the individual weakly prefers A over C. The rational agent will then perform their own cost–benefit analysis using a variety of

Friendly artificial intelligence (2,710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and ideal value consequent. Some philosophers claim that any truly "rational" agent, whether artificial or human, will naturally be benevolent; in this

Eldar Shafir (1,458 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

view that decision making is often not based on what is assumed by rational agent models. Shafir examines the effects of social, cognitive and emotional

Functional Decision Theory (2,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

school of thought within decision theory which states that, when a rational agent is confronted with a set of possible actions, one should select the

Economic model (3,848 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the economic agent's characteristics, models can be classified as rational agent models, representative agent models etc. Stochastic models are formulated

Belief–desire–intention software model (2,097 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

software model is one example of a reasoning architecture for a single rational agent, and one concern in a broader multi-agent system. This section bounds

Time (12,785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mental framework that necessarily structures the experiences of any rational agent, or observing subject. Kant thought of time as a fundamental part of

Risk premium (2,742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flows, debt, and other market threats. In expected utility theory, a rational agent has a utility function that maps sure-outcomes to numerical values,

Thompson sampling (1,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bayesian control rule matches the asymptotic behaviour of the perfectly rational agent. The setup is as follows. Let a1,a2,…,aT{\displaystyle a_{1},a_{2},\ldots

Pleasure (6,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

benefit or a harm is not important for its normative significance: a rational agent should care to the same extent about all parts of their life. The nearness

Frances Kamm (1,101 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Utilitas, 10(3): 292-319 (2000). The Doctrine of Triple Effect and Why A Rational Agent Need Not Intend the Means to His End, Aristotelian Society Supplementary

Alasdair MacIntyre (4,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that "there are no neutral standards available by appeal to which any rational agent whatsoever could determine" the conclusions of moral philosophy. In

Accessio (Roman law) (722 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

might be accessio by pure accident without the intervention of any rational agent. If a piece of land was torn away by a stream from someone's land and

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (18,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

namely, the structures characteristic of and necessary to the individual rational agent." It does this by elaborating "the fundamental nature of the biological/spiritual

Humility (5,341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perspective on himself as a dependent and corrupt but capable and dignified rational agent". Kant's notion of humility relies on the centrality of truth and rational

Reason and Morality (1,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

claim them for themselves, arguing that, in a person's capacity as a rational agent, they want only noninterference from others, and that this does not

Marginalism (6,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the potential uses of a good or service. If there is scarcity, then a rational agent will satisfy wants of highest possible priority, so that no want is

Concept learning (4,177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

represented as rules, and would then ask to what degree of belief a rational agent should be in agreement with each rule, with some observed examples provided

Business ethics (14,259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

economies would reduce corruption was also contested. Dobson observes, "a rational agent is simply one who pursues personal material advantage ad infinitum.

Existential risk from artificial general intelligence (12,705 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

realism. He claims that even if there are moral facts provable by any "rational" agent, the orthogonality thesis still holds: it is still possible to create

Rationality (15,403 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

implemented and solved by computers. Within artificial intelligence, a rational agent is typically one that maximizes its expected utility, given its current

Warm-glow giving (6,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(gi0){\displaystyle (g_{i}^{0})}will be negative. Therefore, for a rational agent who cannot justify giving, Ui(xi,G,gi∗)<Ui(xi,G,gi0){\displaystyle U_{i}(x_{i}

Instrumental and value rationality (4,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a divine command, a self-evident truth, the characterization of a rational agent, the delineation of an ultimate good [all identified by value rationality]

Bayesian epistemology (4,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

should assign credences to propositions. They determine what an ideally rational agent would believe. The basic principles can be divided into synchronic or

The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam (1,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

action". The problem of collective action, succinctly stated, is that a rational agent won't occur the cost of a collective undertaking if he can receive the

Philosophical pessimism (9,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

say when a fetus becomes a human. A fetus has a potential to become a rational agent with consciousness, feelings, preferences, thoughts, etc. We can think

Glossary of engineering: A–L (31,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

artificial intelligence. Russell & Norvig (2003) (who prefer the term "rational agent") and write "The whole-agent view is now widely accepted in the field"

Glossary of artificial intelligence (27,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

artificial intelligence. Russell & Norvig (2003) (who prefer the term "rational agent") and write "The whole-agent view is now widely accepted in the field"

Glossary of computer science (23,781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

artificial intelligence. Russell & Norvig (2003) (who prefer the term "rational agent") and write "The whole-agent view is now widely accepted in the field"

The Origins of Early Christian Literature (1,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

presentation of classical authorship as one of an "independent ... 'rational agent'". He also found that the ecclesiology explicitly established in Acts

Syntax and semantics of logic programming (2,183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Intuitively, stable models are the "possible sets of beliefs that a rational agent might hold, given [the program]" as premises. A program with negation

History of schools of economic thought on arts and culture (5,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

demanded for the arts. Rejecting the utilitarianism of Bentham and the rational agent of the neo-classicists, American institutionalism proceeds from a more