A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF PASCALS WAGER Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract:Formal analyses of Pascals Wager have almost all been decision-theoretic, with a human as the sole decision-maker. This paper analyses Pascals Wager in a game-theoretic setting in which the deity whose existence the human is considering wagering on is also a decision-maker. There is an equilibrium in which the human chooses to wager that the deity exists and Pascals Wager thus operates, but also one in which the human does not wager. Thus, in a game-theoretic setting, Pascals Wager is indeterminate: wagering and not wagering are both consistent with equilibrium behaviour.

authors

• Tarar, Ahmer

published proceedings

• Economics and Philosophy

author list (cited authors)

• Tarar, A.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Tarar, Ahmer

publication date

• March 2018

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Economics and Philosophy  Journal

keywords

• 38 Economics
• 3801 Applied Economics
• 3803 Economic Theory

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s0266267117000165

start page

• 31

end page

• 44

volume

• 34

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267117000165