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      On the reflection principle

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      Kavas, Gizem
      Advisor
      Wigley, Simon D.
      Date
      2018-06
      Publisher
      Bilkent University
      Language
      English
      Type
      Thesis
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      In ‘Belief and the Will’ van Fraassen (1984: 255) argues that traditional epistemology allows one to believe in propositions that are not entailed by the evidence at hand, while at the same time acknowledging that what is taken to be evidence may in fact turn out to be false. However van Fraassen (1984) shows the incoherence in such agent’s belief states by a diachronic Dutch Book argument, in which such agents are shown to be vulnerable to sure losses in sets of wagers which he regards as fair, which deems him as irrational. As a solution to this problem, van Fraassen (1984) formulates the Reflection Principle as a further constraint for rational agents’ credences. In this thesis I will critically evaluate the Reflection Principle as a constraint for rational agent’s credences, and conclude that the Reflection Principle as an attack and solution to the traditional epistemological view is unsuccessful since it is incompatible with epistemic agency.
      Keywords
      Credence
      Dutch Book Arguments
      Rationality Constraints
      Reflection Principle
      Sleeping Beauty Problem
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