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... to and differ from switches in belief. epistemic norms rationality imagination new hypotheses learning © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 [email protected] References Ahlström-Vij, Kristoffer, and Jeffrey Dunn. 2014. “A Defence of Epistemic Consequentialism.” Philosophical...

... regions (rather than points) in multidimensional spaces. This seemingly simple innovation not only provides a natural way of capturing imprecise experiences but also yields a variety of other philosophical fruits. In particular, my new framework enables us to formulate novel hypotheses about the space...

... probability for X at t is x , she straightaway adopts x as her new credence for X . 41 Finally, make a couple of additional assumptions about the propositions in our microbiologist's algebra. She has credences about the competing theoretical hypotheses H 1 , … , H n...

... are the costs of inference related to dimensionality? To ease into this, think first about how the set of hypotheses grows as new dimensions are added to the space. When we add a new dimension, each possible value of the new dimension combines with every previously complete hypothesis to deliver a new set...

... to “methods” ( Nozick 1981 ). 1 Mayo draws several important lessons from this seemingly simple, two-pronged framework. Here, I discuss three that recur throughout the newest book. First, Mayo carefully distinguishes between statistical hypotheses (e.g., about the frequency of a trait in a population...

... the voters unanimously adopt the same set of preferences. In such situations, all plausible voting rules and all plausible decision rules agree. Cornell University 2010 Arrow, Kenneth. 1951 . Social Choice and Individual Values . New York: Wiley. Bostrom, Nick. 2001 . “The Meta-Newcomb Problem...

... University Press. Benson, Hugh. 2000 . Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues. New York: Oxford University Press. BonJour, Lawrence. 1985 . The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Bostock, David. 1986 . Plato's Phaedo . Oxford...

... of Hobbes to develop a new mathematics of situation, Leibniz’s famed analysis situs . Leibniz’s analysis situs , in turn, provided him with formal tools for characterizing space both as a changing network of regions and as a system of relative positions. It became possible to understand space...

...James M. Joyce David Howie, Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 262. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol...

....” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 : 383 –96. Hájek, Alan. 2003 . “What Conditional Probabilities Could Not Be.” Synthese 137 : 273 –323. Hitchcock, Christopher. 2004 . “Beauty and the Bets.” Synthese 139 : 405 –20. Horgan, Terry. 2004 . “Sleeping Beauty Awakened: New Odds...

... is generally not a local proposition itself. There are blue horses is local, but its negation there are no blue horses is not. This kind of powerful confirmation of extravagant hypotheses by mundane evidence is unsettling. Fine-tuning evidence works this way, too. (That is, the qualitative aspect...

...Duncan Pritchard Sosa Ernest , Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xii + 226 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 A new book by Ernest Sosa is always an event. In a philosophical age where...

.... References Alston William P. 1988 . “ The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification .” Philosophical Perspectives 2 : 257 – 99 . Aristotle . 2008 . Politics , trans. Jowett Benjamin Davis Henry William Carless . New York : Cosimo Inc. Brandom Robert...

... of causation, along with corresponding questions about the kinds of worldly structures this concept answers to. (We’ll see shortly that, for reasons Woodward expertly lays out, talk of “our concept” of causation is too limiting. But if you’re a philosopher new to Woodward’s approach, it’s probably the best way...

... by something like the following line of argument: Evidential decision theory endorses irrational courses of action in a range of examples and endorses “an irrational policy of managing the news” (Lewis 1981, 5). These are fatal problems for evidential decision theory. Causal decision theory delivers...

... : 447 -82. ____. Forthcoming. A New Argument for Evidentialism. Philosophical Quarterly. Velleman, J. David. 1989 . Epistemic Freedom. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70 : 73 -97; reprinted in The Possibility of Practical Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). ____. 2000a...

... the victim of Descartes’s evil genius. And recall that, in facing down this new skeptical challenge posed by the evidence for BBs, we’re going to assume those traditional skeptical hypotheses have already been assigned negligible credence by some traditional anti-skeptical philosophical considerations.) So...

....: Anthenäum. Beck, Lewis White. 1978 . Essays on Kant and Hume. New Haven: Yale University Press. Ebbinghaus, Julius. 1968 . Gesammelte Aufsätze, Vorträge und Reden. Darm-stadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Falkenstein, Lorne. 1995 . Kant's Intuitionism. Toronto: University...

... (April 2002) Christopher Hookway, Truth, Rationality, and Self-Control: Themes from Peirce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 313. Truth, Rationality, and Self-Control incorporates work from seven previously pub- lished essays and five chapters of new material...

... that news-bearing aspect of the options that we meant to suppress. Had we used the conditional credences, we would have arrived at nothing different from V. What should we take the dependency hypotheses to be, to apply this framework to the Chewcomb problem? If we assume that, because...