“Updatelessness” and commitment in the academic literature on Newcomb’s problem – a list of papers

The following is a list of academically published (peer-reviewed) works discussing concepts related to updatelessness, updateless decision theory, commitment, and son of CDT/EDT. Feel free to email me to suggest further works to include (including your own if applicable)!

  • David Gauthier (1988/1989): “In the Neighbourhood of the Newcomb-Predictor (Reflections on Rationality)“. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 89, pp. 179–194.
  • Christopher J. G. Meacham (2010): “Binding and its consequences“. Philosophical Studies, Vol. 149, No. 1, pp. 49–71.
  • Caspar Oesterheld and Vincent Conitzer (2021): “Extracting Money from Causal Decision Theorists“. The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 701–716. Sections III, IV.3. IV.4 (“Policy choice”).
  • Preston Greene (2018): “Success-First Decision Theories”. In: Arif Ahmed (ed.): Newcomb’s Problem, pp. 115–37, Cambridge University Press.
  • Gary Drescher (2006): Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics. MIT Press. Section 6.2.