Questions in Action

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dc.contributor.authorHoek, Danielen
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-18T13:37:15Zen
dc.date.available2022-01-18T13:37:15Zen
dc.date.issued2022-03-31en
dc.date.updated2022-01-16T20:48:47Zen
dc.description.abstractChoices confront us with questions. How we act depends on our answers to those questions. So the way our beliefs guide our choices is not just a function of their informational content, but also depends systematically on the questions those beliefs address. This paper gives a precise account of the interplay between choices, questions and beliefs, and harnesses this account to obtain a principled approach to the problem of deduction. The result is a novel theory of belief-guided action that explains and predicts the decisions of agents who, like ourselves, fail to be logically omniscient: that is, of agents whose beliefs may not be deductively closed, or even consistent.en
dc.description.notesWinner of the 2021 Isaac Levi Prize ($10000)en
dc.description.versionSubmitted versionen
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dc.identifier.issn0022-362Xen
dc.identifier.orcidHoek, Daniel [0000-0002-5331-2409]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/107743en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJournal of Philosophyen
dc.relation.urihttp://danielhoek.com/en
dc.relation.urihttps://www.journalofphilosophy.org/en
dc.subject2203 Philosophyen
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.titleQuestions in Actionen
dc.title.serialJournal of Philosophyen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-12-30en
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