For True Conditionalizers Weisberg’s Paradox is a False Alarm

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 1 (1):111-119 (2014)
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Abstract

Weisberg introduces a phenomenon he terms perceptual undermining. He argues that it poses a problem for Jeffrey conditionalization, and Bayesian epistemology in general. This is Weisberg’s paradox. Weisberg argues that perceptual undermining also poses a problem for ranking theory and for Dempster-Shafer theory. In this note I argue that perceptual undermining does not pose a problem for any of these theories: for true conditionalizers Weisberg’s paradox is a false alarm.

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Franz Huber
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The Logic of Decision.Richard C. Jeffrey - 1965 - New York, NY, USA: University of Chicago Press.
A Mathematical Theory of Evidence.Glenn Shafer - 1976 - Princeton University Press.
Commutativity or Holism? A Dilemma for Conditionalizers.Jonathan Weisberg - 2009 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (4):793-812.

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