Tournament decision theory.

In this paper, I diagnose the problems facing causal decision theory as a special case of the general phenomenon of decision‐dependence–the possibility that some input into our evaluation of options can be affected by the decision we end up making. I go on to develop a new decision theory, which treats each choice as a tournament between options competing in pairs, and show how it can capture attractive features of the causal view while avoiding the problems generated by decision‐dependence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]