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