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Chance and credence
06/05/29
In his paper at the SEP, Alan Hajek argued for this analogy: One's degree of belief in P being equal to the objective chance of P is like one's categorical belief that P being true. That is, a degree of belief getting the world right consists in it matching the objective chances.
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Sentry duty and a three-word vocabulary
06/05/27
There were many good talks at the SEP last week, and I am still mulling over some of them.
I'll mention Brian Skyrms' talk briefly, because I am still mulling it over but don't have anything deep to say about it.
Brian offered simple evolutionary models of animal -
Rumor Volat
06/05/18
Tonight was the opening session of the Society for Exact Philosophy. Walking past Brian Skyrms, I said hi and congratulated him on his new position. He was somewhat taken aback, because he only just agreed to it-- not that it is secret, but there hasn't been a public announcement yet.
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An angsty tableaux
06/05/08
Yesterday was the last class meeting for my Existentialism course. During the discussion, one of the students drew a doodle in her notes. She showed it to me; with her permission, I've pasted it in below. It summarizes the course, more or less. The philosophers we studied are on the left. She a -
Another quaff of realism
06/05/04
In a recent entry, I discussed the possibilities for realist pluralism. This is the position that there are many real kinds out in nature, not just the priveleged short list of kinds that appears in our fundamental science. I asked how promiscuous this position ought to be: Should we say that silly, -
Time, time, time...
06/05/03
...to see what's become of me.
Last week I revised my paper on four-dimensionalism and sent it off to another journal. Although it is not the cleverest thing I have ever written, I would like to see it published. It has the coolest pictures of any paper I have ever done, even cooler -
Cat and Girl in the echo chamber
06/05/02
Dorothy uses the phrase 'pink collar worker' in today's Cat&Girl. Below the comic, she comments:Did you know that the New York Times segregated its help wanted section by gender until 1972? That may or may not be true. Thanks, Wikipedia!Yet, compare the Wikipedia entry for pink co
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