Back to required readings
Here are a bunch of extra readings on the three topics for the day:
On the Principal Principle:
- The first and most important reading is the source of the principle in the first place:
- After that, Lewis and others have contributed to a long literature about the principle:
On Reflection: (note that much of this literature is discussing diachronic dutch book arguments which we have not yet studied)
- van Fraassen, Belief and the Will (introduces the idea)
- Talbott, Two Principles of Bayesian Epistemology (against reflection)
- van Fraassen, Belief and the Problem of Ulysses and the Sirens (further discussion of reflection)
- Christensen, Clever Bookies and Coherent Beliefs
- Green and Hitchcock, Reflections on Reflection: van Fraassen on Belief
- Weisberg, Conditionalization, Reflection, and Self-Knowledg
- Arntzenius, Some Problems for Conditionalization and Reflection
- Briggs, Distorted Reflection (defends a qualified version of reflection)
- Elga, Reflection and Disagreement
On the principle of indifference:
- van Fraassen, Indifference: The Symmetries of Probability
- Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
- Hacking, Equipossible Theories of Probability
- White, Evidential Symmetry
- Novack, A Defense of the Principle of Indifference
- Norton, Ignorance and Indifference
- Mikkelson, Dissolving the Wine/Water Paradox
- Marinoff, A Resolution of Bertrand's Paradox
- Shakel, Bertrand's Paradox and the Principle of Indifference
- Williamson, Motivating Objective Bayesianism
- Seidenfeld, Why I am not an Objective Bayesian
- Seidenfeld, Entropy and Uncertainty