There are a fair number of formal analyses of Newcomb’s problem. I particularly like this one:
D.H. Wolpert and G. Benford, What does Newcomb’s paradox teach us? (showing that the standard approaches to the paradox encode fundamentally different—and inconsistent—views about the nature of the decision problem, and clearing up a number of other confusions.)
There are a fair number of formal analyses of Newcomb’s problem. I particularly like this one:
D.H. Wolpert and G. Benford, What does Newcomb’s paradox teach us? (showing that the standard approaches to the paradox encode fundamentally different—and inconsistent—views about the nature of the decision problem, and clearing up a number of other confusions.)