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Implementing David Lewis' Principal Principle: A Program for Investigating the Relation between Credence and Chance

Earman, John (2021) Implementing David Lewis' Principal Principle: A Program for Investigating the Relation between Credence and Chance. [Preprint]

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Abstract: In place of the just-so stories and intuition mongering of analytical metaphysicians, I offer a program for understanding the relationship between credence and chance in quantum physics and show how a version of the program can be implemented with the help of some representation theorems.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Earman, Johnjearman@pitt.edu
Additional Information: This is a later version of "Implementing David Lewis' Principal Principle: A Program for Investigating the Relation between Credence and Chance" deposited 07 Oct 2020
Keywords: credence and chance, David Lewis' Principal Principle, quantum probability
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
General Issues > Laws of Nature
Specific Sciences > Physics
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: John Earman
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2021 04:31
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2021 04:31
Item ID: 19922
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
General Issues > Laws of Nature
Specific Sciences > Physics
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 21 November 2021
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19922

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