Risk-sensitive decision theory
Publications
2025
Theory and Decision
with
Richard Pettigrew, Jason Konek
What happens when we use a decision theory to judge itself? Theories that diverge from Expected Utility Theory often recommend using EUT, thus undermining themselves.
2022
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
with
Bernhard Salow
We argue that accuracy-theoretic considerations still tell the risk-sensitive to update by conditionalization, despite telling them to plan to update by a novel update procedure.
2020
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
with
Bernhard Salow
This argues that evidence gathering is epistemically irrational for the (Buchak-style) risk-avoidant agent. To do this we consider how accuracy should be measured once risk-awareness is rationally permissible.
Draft Papers
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2019
with
Ben Levinstein
What do measures of accuracy which are risk-weightedly strictly-proper look like? Some results.