Sleeping beauty and the dynamics of de se beliefs |
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Authors: | Christopher J G Meacham |
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Institution: | (1) Rutgers University, Davison Hall, 26 Nichol Ave., New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States |
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Abstract: | This paper examines three accounts of the sleeping beauty case: an account proposed by Adam Elga, an account proposed by David
Lewis, and a third account defended in this paper. It provides two reasons for preferring the third account. First, this account
does a good job of capturing the temporal continuity of our beliefs, while the accounts favored by Elga and Lewis do not.
Second, Elga’s and Lewis’ treatments of the sleeping beauty case lead to highly counterintuitive consequences. The proposed
account also leads to counterintuitive consequences, but they’re not as bad as those of Elga’s account, and no worse than
those of Lewis’ account.
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Keywords: | De se beliefs Updating rule Belief dynamics Sleeping beauty Elga Lewis |
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