Evidence and rationalization
Abstract Suppose that you have to take a test tomorrow but you do not want to study. Unfortunately you should study, since you care about passing and you expect to pass only if you study. Is there anything you can do to make it the case that you should not study? Is there any way for you to ‘ration...
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Suppose that you have to take a test tomorrow but you do not want to study. Unfortunately you should study, since you care about passing and you expect to pass only if you study. Is there anything you can do to make it the case that you should not study? Is there any way for you to ‘rationalize’ slacking off? I suggest that such rationalization is impossible. Then I show that if evidential decision theory is true, rationalization is not only possible but sometimes advisable. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1317802023-03-15T17:54:15Z Evidence and rationalization Wells, Ian Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Abstract Suppose that you have to take a test tomorrow but you do not want to study. Unfortunately you should study, since you care about passing and you expect to pass only if you study. Is there anything you can do to make it the case that you should not study? Is there any way for you to ‘rationalize’ slacking off? I suggest that such rationalization is impossible. Then I show that if evidential decision theory is true, rationalization is not only possible but sometimes advisable. 2021-09-20T17:30:14Z 2021-09-20T17:30:14Z 2018-12-11 2020-09-24T20:38:15Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131780 en https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1209-1 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Springer Nature B.V. application/pdf Springer Netherlands Springer Netherlands |
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