In Rational Choice Theory, both the Evidential Decision Theory (EDT) camp and the Causal Decision Theory (CDT) camp are burdened with fatal problems of choosing rational action. According to proponents of CDT, imposing a ratifiability requirement will help us to save CDT. A ratifiability account rules out the irrational options for the agent to choose. The first proposal of ratifiability requirement, the (original) Ratification Theorem (RT), is refuted by an example of Egan. The second ratifiability proposal, the Lexical Ratificationism Theorem (LRT), is countered by an example of Gupta. In order to save CDT, I propose a transformed version of the Lexical Ratificationism Theorem: the Two-order Ratificationism Theorem (TORT).

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Neuteboom, N. (2014). Would You Press a Button that Kills All Psychopaths?: The Two-Order Ratificationism Theorem of Causal Decision Theory. Erasmus Student Journal of Philosophy, 4(1), 22–28. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77058