Uncertainty and Control

• Authors: Hansson Sven Ove
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In a decision making context, an agent’s uncertainty can be either epistemic, i.e. due to her lack of knowledge, or agentive, i.e. due to her not having made (full) use of her decision-making power. In cases when it is unclear whether or not a decision maker presently has control over her own future actions, it is difficult to determine whether her uncertainty is epistemic or agentive. Such situations are often difficult for the agent to deal with, but from an outsider’s perspective, they can have sensible pragmatic solutions.

Keywords

EN

uncertainty; control; agentive uncertainty; Newcomb’s paradox; death in Damascus

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 53
• Pages: 50-59

Dates

published

2017-09

Contributors

author

Hansson Sven Ove

• Royal Institute of Technology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.13153/diam.53.0.1100