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Sleeping Beauty goes to the lab
- Source :
- Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Springer Verlag
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Analyses of the Sleeping Beauty Problem are polarised between those advocating the “1/2 view” (“halfers”) and those endorsing the “1/3 view” (“thirders”). The disagreement concerns the evidential relevance of self-locating information. Unlike halfers, thirders regard self-locating information as evidentially relevant in the Sleeping Beauty Problem. In the present study, we systematically manipulate the kind of information available in different formulations of the Sleeping Beauty Problem. Our findings indicate that patterns of judgment on different formulations of the Sleeping Beauty Problem do not fit either the “1/2 view” or the “1/3 view.” Human reasoners tend to acknowledge self-locating evidence as relevant, but discount its weight significantly. Accordingly, self-locating information may trigger more cautious judgments of confirmation than familiar kinds of statistical evidence. We also discuss how these results can advance the debate by providing a more nuanced and empirically grounded account or explication of the evidential impact of self-locating information.
- Subjects :
- Philosophy of mind
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Psychology of self
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
050105 experimental psychology
Sleeping beauty problem
Relevance (law)
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Probability
Reasoning
Self-locating evidence
Philosophy
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Philosophy of science
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
Epistemology
Explication
060302 philosophy
Beauty
Sleeping Beauty problem
Psychology
Social psychology
Statistical evidence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18785158
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Review of Philosophy and Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ceb931f6dc754b0c3e239b743e5f34d4