Reasoning about the future: Doom and beauty

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9132-YMaRDI QIDQ2460147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis Dieks

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9132-y

zbMATH Keywords

BayesSleeping BeautyDoomsdayProbability updating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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