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Diachronic Dutch Books and Sleeping Beauty

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Hitchcock advances a diachronic Dutch Book argument (DDB) for a 1/3 answer to the Sleeping Beauty problem. Bradley and Leitgeb argue that Hitchcock’s DDB argument fails. We demonstrate the following: (a) Bradley and Leitgeb’s criticism of Hitchcock is unconvincing; (b) nonetheless, there are serious reasons to worry about the success of Hitchcock’s argument; (c) however, it is possible to construct a new DDB for 1/3 about which such worries cannot be raised.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA

    Kai Draper & Joel Pust

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Draper, K., Pust, J. Diachronic Dutch Books and Sleeping Beauty. Synthese 164, 281–287 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9226-1

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