Delabre, Laurent (2008) Sleeping Beauty: Debate on a Paradox. [Preprint]

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I restate the Sleeping Beauty probabilistic paradox and offer an overview of the ongoing discussions that aim at resolving the problem. I summarize and eventually criticize briefly the various views: neutral position, Bayesian thirdism, non-Bayesian thirdism, traditional halfism, as well as the new halfism of credence conservation, a somewhat neglected but interesting point of view. I try at the same time to clarify some essential notions, to introduce the main actors of the debate, and to anticipate its evolution.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Delabre, Laurent
Keywords:	sleeping beauty, probability, bayesianism, frequentism, subjectivism, objectivism, self-locating, centered world, observation selection effects, reflection, paradox, thought experiments
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User:	Laurent Delabre
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:17
Item ID:	4342
Subjects:	General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date:	December 2008
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4342

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