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Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief

Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief

Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief
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Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief Paperback - 2014

by Titelbaum, Michael G

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Oxford University Press, 8/1/2014 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.9100 9.2100 6.1400. Minimal markings from previous owner threwout pages.
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  • Title Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief
  • Author Titelbaum, Michael G
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 8/1/2014 12:00:01 AM
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003697922
  • ISBN 9780199687602 / 0199687609
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Size 0.9100 9.2100 6.1400
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Bayesian statistical decision theory, Belief and doubt - Mathematical models
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012532067
  • Dewey Decimal Code 121.6
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Book

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Michael G. Titelbaum presents a new Bayesian framework for modeling rational degrees of belief, called the Certainty-Loss Framework. Subjective Bayesianism is epistemologists' standard theory of how individuals should change their degrees of belief over time. But despite the theory's power, it is widely recognized to fail for situations agents face every day--cases in which agents forget information, or in which they assign degrees of belief to self-locating claims. Quitting Certainties argues that these failures stem from a common source: the inability of Conditionalization (Bayesianism's traditional updating rule) to model claims' going from certainty at an earlier time to less-than-certainty later on. It then presents a new Bayesian updating framework that accurately represents rational requirements on agents who undergo certainty loss.

Titelbaum develops this new framework from the ground up, assuming little technical background on the part of his reader. He interprets Bayesian theories as formal models of rational requirements, leading him to discuss both the elements that go into a formal model and the general principles that link formal systems to norms. By reinterpreting Bayesian methodology and altering the theory's updating rules, Titelbaum is able to respond to a host of challenges to Bayesianism both old and new. These responses lead in turn to deeper questions about commitment, consistency, and the nature of information.

Quitting Certainties presents the first systematic, comprehensive Bayesian framework unifying the treatment of memory loss and context-sensitivity. It develops this framework, motivates it, compares it to alternatives, then applies it to cases in epistemology, decision theory, the theory of identity, and the philosophy of quantum mechanics.

About the author

Michael G. Titelbaum grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed a BA in philosophy at Harvard College, a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a postdoc at the Australian National University. He is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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