Unsharp sharpness

Nils Eric Sahlin, Paul Weirich

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Abstract

In a recent, thought-provoking paper Adam Elga ((2010) argues against unsharp - e.g., indeterminate, fuzzy and unreliable - probabilities. Rationality demands sharpness, he contends, and this means that decision theories like Levi's (1980, 1988), Gärdenfors and Sahlin's (1982), and Kyburg's (1983), though they employ different decision rules, face a common, and serious, problem. This article defends the rule to maximize minimum expected utility against Elga's objection.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)100-103
Number of pages4
JournalTheoria
Volume80
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

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