Michael G. Titelbaum

Quitting Certainties

A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael G. Titelbaum presents a new Bayesian framework for modeling rational degrees of belief¿the first of its kind to represent rational requirements on agents who undergo certainty loss. He compares the framework to alternative solutions, and applies it to cases in epistemology, decision theory, the theory of identity, and quantum mechanics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780199687602
• ISBN-10: 0199687609
• Artikelnr.: 40137847

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Titelbaum grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed a BA in philosophy at Harvard College, a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a postdoc at the Australian National University. He is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Going Modeling
1: Introduction
2: Models and Norms
II Elements of CLF
3: Modeling Framework
4: Applying CLF Models to Stories
5: Three Objections
III Memory Loss
6: Generalized Conditionalization
7: Suppositional Consistency
IV Context-Sensitivity
8: The Proper Expansion Principle
9: Applying (PEP)
10: Alternative Updating Schemes
11: Indierence and Quantum
V Conclusion
12: Loose Ends
13: Modeling Advantages
Proofs