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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Splitting-the-difference"”.
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Constraining credences
… governing our opinions about counterfactuals, by the opinions of other agents, and by our own previous opinions. In Chapter 1, I discuss ordinary language judgments about sequences of counterfactuals, and then discuss intuitions about norms governing our credence in counterfactuals. I argue that …
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Content and Concept: An Examination of Transcendental Empiricism
<p>In this dissertation, I critically examine the philosophy of transcendental empiricism. Transcendental empiricism is, among other things, a philosophy of mental content. It attempts to dissolve an epistemological dilemma of mental content by splitting the difference between two diametrically …
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Three essays in microeconomics
… consists of three essays in microeconomics. The first essay studies a finite-horizon alternating-offer model that integrates the common practice of having an arbitrator determine the outcomes if both players' offers are rejected. We find that if the arbitrator uses final-offer arbitration (as …