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Money Pumps and Diachronic Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Isaac Levi
Isaac Levi*
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Columbia University
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Abstract

The idea that rational agents should have acyclic preferences and should obey conditionalization has been defended on the grounds that otherwise an agent is threatened with becoming a “money pump.” This essay argues that such arguments fail to prove their claims.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 69 , Issue S3 , September 2002 , pp. S235 - S247
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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