Essays on paradoxes /

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Author / Creator:Horgan, Terry, 1948- author.
Uniform title:Works. Selections. 2016
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description:vii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039550
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ISBN:9780199858422 (hardcover : alk. paper)
019985842X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Newcomb's Problem
  • 1. Counterfactuals and Newcomb's Problem
  • 2. Newcomb's Problem: A Stalemate
  • 3. Newcomb's Problem Revisited
  • Part 2. The Monty Hall Problem
  • 4. Let's Make a Deal
  • Part 3. The Two Envelope Paradox
  • 5. The Two-Envelope Paradox, Nonstandard Expected Utility, and the Intensionality of Probability
  • 6. The Two-Envelope Paradox and the Foundations of Rational Decision Theory (Abridged)
  • Part 4. The Sorites Paradox
  • 7. Robust Vagueness and the Forced-March Sorites Paradox
  • 8. Transvaluationism: A Dionysian Approach to Vagueness
  • 9. Transvaluationism about Vagueness: A Progress Report
  • Part 5. The Sleeping Beauty Problem
  • 10. Sleeping Beauty Awakened: New Odds at the Dawn of the New Day
  • 11. Synchronic Bayesian Updating and the Sleeping Beauty Problem: Reply to Pust
  • 12. The Exchange Continued: Response to Pust's Response to My Reply
  • 13. Generalized Conditionalization and the Sleeping Beauty Problem, II
  • Part 6. Epistemic Probability
  • 14. Epistemic Probability
  • Index