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- Title
Sleeping Beauty and the absent-minded driver.
- Authors
Baratgin, Jean; Walliser, Bernard
- Abstract
The Sleeping Beauty problem is presented in a formalized framework which summarizes the underlying probability structure. The two rival solutions proposed by Elga (Analysis 60:143–147, 2000) and Lewis (Analysis 61:171–176, 2001) differ by a single parameter concerning her prior probability. They can be supported by considering, respectively, that Sleeping Beauty is “fuzzy-minded” and “blank-minded”, the first interpretation being more natural than the second. The traditional absent-minded driver problem is reinterpreted in this framework and sustains Elga’s solution.
- Subjects
PROBABILITY theory; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); ABSENT-mindedness; ELGA, Adam; LEWIS, David
- Publication
Theory & Decision, 2010, Vol 69, Issue 3, p489
- ISSN
0040-5833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11238-010-9215-6