Tappenden, Paul (2010) Expectancy and rational action prior to personal fission. [Preprint]

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Some analyses of personal fission suggest that an informed subject should expect to have a distinct experience of each outcome simultaneously. Is rational provision for the future possible in such unfamiliar circumstances? I argue that, with some qualification, the subject can reasonably act as if faced with alternative possible outcomes with precise probabilities rather than multiple actual outcomes.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Tappenden, Paul
Additional Information:	This version of the paper has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies
Keywords:	Sider, Everett, stage theory, personal fission, probability, many-worlds
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory
Depositing User:	paul tappenden
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2010
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:19
Item ID:	5090
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory
Date:	January 2010
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5090

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