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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2008

JEFFREY HELZNER
JEFFREY HELZNER*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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*DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY E-mail:[email protected]
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Abstract

We propose an approach to assigning propositional content to deliberate acts of arbitrary type, as opposed to just speech acts. This approach, which is based on the idea that the content of an act is the decision maker's expectation concerning the change that would take place if the act were to be performed, is shown to be related to the concept of expected utility that has played a central role in various accounts of rationality.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 424 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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