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The Lion, the 'Which?' and the Wardrobe -- Reading Lewis as a Closet One-boxer
Newcomb chance causation decision theory
2009/9/17
Newcomb problems turn on a tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential facto...
Qeauty and the Books: A Response to Lewis's Quantum Sleeping Beauty Problem
Quantum Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty
2009/6/11
In his 2007 paper “Quantum Sleeping Beauty”, Peter Lewis poses a problem for appeals to subjective probability in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Lewis’s argument hinges on parallels ...
Probability without certaintyFoundationalism and the Lewis-Reichenbach debate
Epistemic foundationalism Probability Lewis Reichenbach
2008/4/22
Like many discussions on the pros and cons of epistemic foundationalism, the debate between C.I. Lewis and H. Reichenbach dealt with three concerns: the existence of basic beliefs, their nature, and t...
Simon Saunders and David Wallace are attempting to use a modified form of David Lewis's analysis of personal fission to support the thought that prior to undergoing Everett branching an informed subje...
Why Lewis', Shogenji's and Fitelsons's notions of coherence cannot be accepted
Coherence coherence measure Bayesian coherence
2008/4/18
In this paper, I show that Lewis' definition of coherence and Fitelson's and Shogenji's measures of coherence are unacceptable because they entail the absurdity that any set of beliefs in general is c...
David Lewis Meets Hamilton and Jacobi
modality analytical mechanics Hamilton-Jacobi theory
2008/4/11
I commemorate David Lewis by discussing an aspect of modality within analytical mechanics, which is closely related to his work on counterfactuals. This concerns the way Hamilton-Jacobi theory uses en...
A thirder and an Everettian: a reply to Lewis's 'Quantum Sleeping Beauty'
an Everettian A thirder
2008/4/9
Since the publication of Elga’s seminal paper in 2000, the Sleeping Beauty paradox has been the source
of much discussion, particularly in this journal. Over the past few decades the Everettian inter...