Open AccessThe Dynamics of Indexical Belief
Author(s) -
Moritz Schulz
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
erkenntnis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1572-8420
pISSN - 0165-0106
DOI - 10.1007/s10670-010-9209-3
Subject(s) - indexicality , constraint (computer aided design) , ontology , beauty , dynamics (music) , space (punctuation) , epistemology , computer science , mathematics , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , pedagogy , geometry
Indexical beliefs pose a special problem for standard theories of Bayesian updating. Sometimes we are uncertain about our location in time and space. How are we to update our beliefs in situations like these? In a stepwise fashion, I develop a constraint on the dynamics of indexical belief. As an application, the suggested constraint is brought to bear on the Sleeping Beauty problem.
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