JOURNAL ARTICLE

Indifference to Anti-Humean Chances

J. Dmitri Gallow

Year: 2022 Journal:   Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol: 52 (5)Pages: 485-501   Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Abstract An indifference principle says that your credences should be distributed uniformly over each of the possibilities you recognise. A chance deference principle says that your credences should be aligned with the chances. My thesis is that if we are anti-Humeans about chance, then these two principles are incompatible. Anti-Humeans think that it is possible for the actual frequencies to depart from the chances. As long as you recognise possibilities like this, you cannot both spread your credences evenly and defer to the chances. I discuss some weaker forms of indifference which will allow anti-Humeans to defer to the chances.

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Deference Principle of sufficient reason Epistemology Philosophy Law Political science

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