Essays on paradoxes / Terence Horgan
- Author
- Horgan, Terry, 1948-
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. 2016
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Physical Description
- vii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Part One: Newcomb's problem -- Counterfactuals and Newcomb's problem -- Newcomb's problem: a stalemate -- Newcomb's problem revisited -- Part Two: The Monty Hall Problem -- Let's make a deal -- Part Three: The two-envelope paradox, nonstandard expected utility, and the intensionality of probability -- The two-envelope paradox and the foundations of rational decision theory (abridged) -- Part Four: The sorites paradox -- Robust vagueness and the forced-march sorites paradox -- Transvaluationism: a Dionysian approach to vagueness -- Part Five: The sleeping beauty problem -- Sleeping beauty awakened: new odds at the dawn of the new day -- Synchronic Bayesian updating and the sleeping beauty problem: reply to Pust -- The exchange continued: response to Pust's response to my reply -- Generalized conditionalization and the sleeping beauty problem, II -- Part Six: Epistemic probabilty -- Epistemic probability.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199858422 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
019985842X (hardcover ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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