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Dutch books and agent rationality
Authors:Silber  Daniel
Affiliation:(1) Department of Religion and Philosophy, Florida Southern College, 111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, FL, 33801-5698, U.S.A. Phone
Abstract:According to the Dutch Book Argument (DBA), if an agent's subjective probabilities fail to satisfy the axioms of the probability calculus and so make the agent vulnerable to a Dutch Book, the agent's subjective probabilities are incoherent and the agent is therefore irrational. Critics of DBA have argued, however, that probabilistic incoherence is compatible with various kinds of rationality – logico-semantic, epistemic, instrumental and prudential. In this paper, I provide an interpretation of DBA on which it is true that probabilistic incoherence entails agent irrationality. Articulating this interpretation requires the specification of some of the connections among the varieties of rationality. Once this is done, it becomes possible to vindicate a modest version of DBA.
Keywords:Bayesianism  Betting behavior  Coherence  Dutch books  Epistemic  Instrumental  Logico-semantic  Probability  Rationality  Subjective probability
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