Even for objectivists, sleeping beauty isn’t so simple

Analysis 77 (1):29-37 (2017)
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Abstract

Writing collectively as the Oscar Seminar in 2008, John Pollock and several colleagues advance an objectivist argument for a 1/3 solution to the Sleeping Beauty problem. In 2011, Joel Pust raises a serious objection to their argument to which Paul D. Thorn, a member of the Oscar Seminar, offers a subtle reply. I argue that the Oscar Seminar s argument for 1/3 is unsound. I do not, however, defend Pust’s objection. Rather I develop a new objection, one that is not threatened by the considerations to which Thorn appeals in his reply to Pust.

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Kaila Draper
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