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121Sleeping beauty should be impreciseSynthese 191 (14): 3159-3172. 2014.The traditional solutions to the Sleeping Beauty problem say that Beauty should have either a sharp 1/3 or sharp 1/2 credence that the coin flip was heads when she wakes. But Beauty’s evidence is incomplete so that it doesn’t warrant a precise credence, I claim. Instead, Beauty ought to have a properly imprecise credence when she wakes. In particular, her representor ought to assign \(R(H\!eads)=[0,1/2]\) . I show, perhaps surprisingly, that this solution can account for the many of the intuitio…Read more
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58Germs, Genes, and Memes: Function and Fitness Dynamics on Information NetworksPhilosophy of Science 82 (2): 219-243. 2015.Understanding the dynamics of information is crucial to many areas of research, both inside and outside of philosophy. Using computer simulations of three kinds of information, germs, genes, and memes, we show that the mechanism of information transfer often swamps network structure in terms of its effects on both the dynamics and the fitness of the information. This insight has both obvious and subtle implications for a number of questions in philosophy, including questions about the nature of …Read more
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University of PennsylvaniaDepartment of Philosophy
Legal Studies and Business EthicsAssociate Professor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Epistemic Normativity |
Formal Epistemology |
Social Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |