Diachronic Dutch Books and Evidential Import

Diachronic Dutch Books and Sleeping Beauty

One version of the Sleeping Beauty problem (Elga 2000) is this: Beauty is the subject of an experiment that begins when she is put to sleep on Sunday night. She is awakened on Monday morning. That afternoon she is informed that it is Monday. She is put back to sleep on Monday night. The experimenters then flip a fair coin. If it comes up heads, Beauty is not awakened on Tuesday. If it comes up ...

Dutch Books and Combinatorial Games

The theory of combinatorial games (like board games) and the theory of social games (where one looks for Nash equilibria) are normally considered two separate theories. Here we shall see what comes out of combining the ideas. J. Conway observed that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the real numbers and a special type of combinatorial games. Therefore the payo¤s of a social games are...

Scotching Dutch Books?

On The Evidential Import of Unification

This paper discusses two senses in which a hypothesis may be said to unify evidence. One is the ability of the hypothesis to increase the mutual information of a set of evidence statements; the other is the ability of the hypothesis to explain commonalities in observed phenomena by positing a common origin for them. On Bayesian updating, it is only mutual information unification that contribute...

Do Hebrew electronic books differ from Dutch electronic books? A replication of a Dutch content analysis

This replication study of Hebrew versus Dutch electronic books for young children was based on De Jong & Bus’s content analysis, which explored whether e-books are appropriate supports for young children’s literacy development. Our criteria for analysing 43 Hebrew e-books for young children included book processing, multimedia in pictures, multimedia connected to printed or spoken text, interac...