Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem (trans. Krzysztof Nowicki)

  • Adam Elga Department of Philosophy at the Princeton University
  • Krzysztof Nowicki Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul III Catolic University of Lublin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2018.66.1-10
Keywords: paradox; Sleeping Beauty problem

Abstract

Original: "Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem", Analysis 60 (2000), issue 2: 143-147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/60.2.143. Translation with permission of the author.

In addition to being uncertain about what the world is like, one can also be uncertain about one’s own spatial or temporal location in the world. The aim of the paper is to pose a problem arising from the interaction between these two sorts of uncertainty, solve the problem, and draw two lessons from the solution.

Author Biographies

Adam Elga, Department of Philosophy at the Princeton University

Prof. Adam Elga — Department of Philosophy at the Princeton University, USA; areas of his interest include decision and game theory, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Krzysztof Nowicki, Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul III Catolic University of Lublin

PhD student

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Published
2019-03-22
Issue
Vol 66 No 1 (2018)
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