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Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Michael G. Titelbaum

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Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Michael G. Titelbaum

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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, itis 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 thatlink 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 ofinformation. 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 ofidentity, and the philosophy of quantum mechanics. | Quitting Certainties by Michael G. Titelbaum, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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