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A New Group Dutch Book Argument
Author(s) -
Kopec Matthew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12131
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , normative , epistemology , group (periodic table) , philosophy , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry
In this essay, I repair the group Dutch Book argument presented by Donald Gillies. I then examine what additional assumptions would be needed for the argument to generate genuinely normative prescriptions for groups of inquirers. Although the resulting norms will apply to fewer groups than Gillies originally intended, they are still an important addition to the normative landscape in social epistemology.[Note 1. I would like to thank Fabrizio Cariani, Daniel Hausman, ...]