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This volume introduces and collects the latest thinking on a controversial paradox of decision theory, Newcomb's problem.
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Arif Ahmed is University Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Saul Kripke (2007), Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Reader's Guide (2010), and Evidence, Decision and Causality (2014), and the editor of Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010).
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