Greetings all, This coming Monday, June 22 Darren Bradley, UBC, will talk to us about "Four Problems about self-locating belief." As usual, talks are in the philosophy common room from 1.00-2.30. For more details visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Current_Projects_2009.html Abstract: This paper gives a unified treatment of the Doomsday Argument, Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-tuning Argument and confirmation in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. All these cases involve self-locating evidence. However, the troublesome feature of these cases is not self-location, but observation selection effects. I explain how observation selection effects operate, why they affect the four problem cases, and how they can be incorporated into confirmation theory. I will defend the Doomsday Argument, the halfer position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-tuning Argument and the applicability of confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. See you all there.... Dr. Kristie Miller University of Sydney Research Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] 846 subscribers now served. To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
