Essays on paradoxes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horgan, Terry, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Newcomb's problem
  • Counterfactuals and Newcomb's problem
  • Newcomb's problem: a stalemate
  • Newcomb's problem revisted
  • 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.