Changing minds in a changing world
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Changing minds in a changing world
I defend a general rule for updating beliefs that takes into account both the impact of new evidence and changes in the subject’s location. The rule combines standard conditioning with a “shifting” operation that moves the center of each doxastic possibility forward to the next point where information arrives. I show that well-known arguments for conditioning lead to this combination when cente...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0031-8116,1573-0883
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9699-0