Johan E. Gustafsson
@johangustafsson.bsky.social
Thinks about decision theory, ethics, and metaphysics.
johanegustafsson.net
Philosophy
27%
Neuroscience
15%
A behavioural money-pump argument for completeness - Theory and Decision
Completeness says that, for every pair of prospects, at least one of the prospects is at least as preferred as the other. I present a new money-pump argument that Completeness is a requirement of rati...
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New money-pump argument for Completeness out in Theory and Decision (open access).
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Ex Ante Pareto and the Opaque-Identity Puzzle - published on January 27, 2025
Anna Mahtani describes a puzzle meant to show that the Ex Ante Pareto Principle is incomplete as it stands and, since it cannot be completed in a satisfactory manner, decades of debate in welfare econ...
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New paper ‘Ex Ante Pareto and the Opaque-Identity Puzzle’, joint with Kacper Kowalczyk, out in the Journal of Philosophy — discussing Anna Mahtani’s opaque-identity objection to Ex Ante Pareto.
doi.org/10.5840/jphi...
doi.org/10.5840/jphi...
New paper in Mind, ‘A Universal Money Pump for the Myopic, Naive, and Minimally Sophisticated’.
It features a new visualization of cyclicity A Reutersvärd/Penrose stairway with just three steps.
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
It features a new visualization of cyclicity A Reutersvärd/Penrose stairway with just three steps.
doi.org/10.1093/mind...
Uncertain Values: An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty
Stefan Riedener’s book is concerned with axiological uncertainty—that is, the problem of how to evaluate prospects given uncertainty about w...
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Wrote a review for NDPR of Stefan Riederner’s excellent book Uncertain Values, defending Expected Value Maximization. I complain that EVM is higher-order inconsistent, and it requires intertheoretic comparisons of value — which (despite recent efforts) seem arbitrary.
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ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/unce...