Greetings all,
Next Monday, 23 Feb current projects we have Mike Titelbaum, ANU UC
Berkeley "Feigning Indifference"
Suppose you're certain that you're in one of two subjectively
indistinguishable situations associated with the same possible world,
but you're uncertain which one you're in. Adam Elga has proposed
adding to the theory of rational credence an indifference principle on
which you should be equally confident that you're in either. I will
show that no additional principle is needed: Instances of Elga's
principle follow directly from a theory I recently proposed for
updating credences in context-sensitive claims. That's the good
news. The bad news is that among these instances are cases that arise
under the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics, and in those
cases Elga's principle contradicts the requirements of the Born Rule.
For more information see:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Current_Projects_2009.html
Please notice the change of address
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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