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Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible
Belief truth dispositionalism Ruth Barcan Marcus Kripke's puzzle about belief creencia verdad disposicionalismo Ruth Barcan Marcus la paradoja de Kripke acerca de las creencias
2016/6/15
I review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discus...
A Deductive Justification for Inductive Belief
induction justification deduction knowledge Gettier Goodman Hume
2016/6/13
In this paper, we utilize a disjunction of familiar inductive beliefs—the disjunction being deductively valid—to show that we have inductive knowledge. While this is in itself philosophically signific...
Although a strict dichotomy between facts and values is no longer accepted, less attention has been paid to the roles values should play in our acceptance of factual statements, or scientific descript...
Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and the Problem of Belief Individuation
Coherence coherence measures Bovens Fitelson
2008/4/22
Coherentism in epistemology has long suffered from lack of formal and quantitative explication of the notion of coherence. One might hope that such probabilistic accounts of coherence as those propose...
Self-Locating Belief in Big Worlds: Cosmology’s Missing Link to Observation
self-locating belief anthropic principle self-sampling assumption
2008/4/22
Current cosmological theories say that the world is so big that all possible observations are in fact made. But then, how can such theories be tested? What could count as negative evidence? To answer ...
Disbelief as the Dual of Belief
Belief Disbelief
2008/4/11
The duality of truth and falsity in a Boolean algebra of propositions is used to generate a duality of belief and disbelief. To each additive probability measure that represents belief there correspon...
Defeating Dr. Evil with self-locating belief
self-locating belief indifference principles decision theory
2008/4/11
Dr. Evil learns that a duplicate of Dr. Evil has been created. Upon learning this, how seriously should he take the hypothesis that he himself is that duplicate? I answer: very seriously. I def...
Belief Merging and the Discursive Dilemma: An Argument-Based Account to Paradoxes of Judgment Aggregation
Judgment aggregation discursive dilemma belief merging
2008/4/10
The aggregation of individual judgments on logically interconnected propositions into a collective decision on the same propositions is called judgment aggregation. Literature in social choice and po...
Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit and the Reliability of Information Sources
Belief expansion coherence reliability
2008/4/10
We develop a probabilistic criterion for belief expansion that is sensitive to the degree of contextual fit of the new information to our belief set as well as to the reliability of our information so...
In 1993, I was teaching a course in introductory statistics to a class of 46 undergraduate business students. It had been my practice to use open book exams so that students could focus on understandi...
Pragmatism, Belief, and Reduction Stereoformulas and Atomic Models in Early Stereochemistry
atomic models in 19th century chemistry stereochemistry
2008/4/7
In this paper I explore the character and role of stereoformulas and models of the atom that appeared in the early history of stereochemistry, including those of Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, Aemilius ...