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HomeUpcoming EventsJennifer Carr (MIT): Anything Mushy Can Do, Sharp Can Do Better
Jennifer Carr (MIT): Anything mushy can do, sharp can do better

Defenders of imprecise credences hold that ambiguous or unspecific evidence requires ambiguous or unspecific credences.  But there are some serious challenges to modeling rational agents using imprecise credences.  I offer a natural strategy for addressing some of these challenges. But adopting this strategy amounts to going precise, in a particular way: instead of attributing to the agent sets of credence functions, we attribute them uncertainty over sets of credence functions. I argue that the good reasons that have been offered for going imprecise are equally good, and sometimes better, reasons for adopting this kind of precise view. 

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  • Tue 31 Jul 2012, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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