Giving your knowledge half a chance

Philosophical Studies (2):1-25 (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

One thousand fair causally isolated coins will be independently flipped tomorrow morning and you know this fact. I argue that the probability, conditional on your knowledge, that any coin will land tails is almost 1 if that coin in fact lands tails, and almost 0 if it in fact lands heads. I also show that the coin flips are not probabilistically independent given your knowledge. These results are uncomfortable for those, like Timothy Williamson, who take these probabilities to play a central role in their theorizing

Author's Profile

Andrew Bacon
University of Southern California

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-08-06

Downloads
810 (#16,699)

6 months
101 (#36,749)

Historical graph of downloads since first upload
This graph includes both downloads from PhilArchive and clicks on external links on PhilPapers.
How can I increase my downloads?