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Group Level Interpretations of Probability: New Directions
Author(s) -
Rowbottom Darrell P.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01451.x
Subject(s) - champion , epistemology , group (periodic table) , feature (linguistics) , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , political science , linguistics , law , chemistry , organic chemistry
In this article, I present some new group level interpretations of probability, and champion one in particular: a consensus‐based variant where group degrees of belief are construed as agreed upon betting quotients rather than shared personal degrees of belief. One notable feature of the account is that it allows us to treat consensus between experts on some matter as being on the union of their relevant background information. In the course of the discussion, I also introduce a novel distinction between intersubjective and interobjective interpretations of probability.