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A Third Route to the Doomsday Argument
A paper published (2009) in English in the Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 34, pages 263-278 (with significant changes with regard to the preprint). In this paper, I present a solution to the Doomsday argument based on a third type of solution, by … Continue reading
Probabilistic Situations for Goodmanian N-universes
A paper appeared (2006) in French in the Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 31, pages 123-141, under the title “Situations probabilistes pour n-univers goodmaniens.” I proceed to describe several applications of the theory of n-universes through several different probabilistic situations. I describe first how … Continue reading
Post-publication of a review of John Leslie, Infinite Minds
Review of John Leslie, Infinite Minds, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, 234 pages.1 Paul Franceschi University of Corsica Post-publication of the review appeared in Philosophiques, Volume 30, number 2, Autumn 2003 Infinite Minds is the fourth book of John … Continue reading
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The Doomsday Argument and Hempel’s Problem
Posprint in English (with additional illustrations from wikimedia commons) of a paper published in French in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol.29, July 1999, pp. 139-56 under the title “Comment l’Urne de Carter et Leslie se Déverse dans celle de Hempel”. I begin by … Continue reading
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Tagged analogy, analogy with an urn, Carl Gustav Hempel, Carl Hempel, contraposition, Doomsday argument, Hempel's problem, induction, John Leslie, négation, paradox Hempel, philosophical paradox, philosophical paradoxes, probability, raven paradox, ravens paradox, reference class, reference class problem, thought experiment
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