Dutch Book Arguments - Couverture souple

Pettigrew, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108713440 ISBN 13 : 9781108713443

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Our beliefs come in degrees. I'm 70% confident it will rain tomorrow, and 0.001% sure my lottery ticket will win. What's more, we think these degrees of belief should abide by certain principles if they are to be rational. For instance, you shouldn't believe that a person's taller than 6ft more strongly than you believe that they're taller than 5ft, since the former entails the latter. In Dutch Book arguments, we try to establish the principles of rationality for degrees of belief by appealing to their role in guiding decisions. In particular, we show that degrees of belief that don't satisfy the principles will always guide action in some way that is bad or undesirable. In this Element, we present Dutch Book arguments for the principles of Probabilism, Conditionalization, and the Reflection Principle, among others, and we formulate and consider the most serious objections to them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108713440
• ISBN 13: 9781108713443
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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