Ten Reasons to Care About the Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Sleeping Beauty Problem attracts so much attention because it connects to a wide variety of unresolved issues in formal epistemology, decision theory, and the philosophy of science. The problem raises unanswered questions concerning relative frequencies, objective chances, the relation between self‐locating and non‐self‐locating information, the relation between self‐location and updating, Dutch Books, accuracy arguments, memory loss, indifference principles, the existence of multiple universes, and many‐worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics. After stating the problem, this article surveys its connections to all of these areas.