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    Adam Elga — Carmelics
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    Adam Elga

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1973

    Adam Elga is an American philosopher specializing in epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind. He is known for his influential work on self-locating beliefs, the Sleeping Beauty problem, and the dynamics of rational credence. He currently teaches at Princeton University.

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    Developed the 'thirder' solution to the Sleeping Beauty problem

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    Contributed foundational work on self-locating belief and indexical credence

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    Advanced the Indifference Principle in anthropic reasoning

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    Published influential work on epistemic peer disagreement

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    Wrote extensively on subjective probability and Bayesian epistemology

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    Truth & Knowledge1
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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

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    The preface paradox pressures Kyburg to extend his tolerance of joint inconsistency to the acceptance of contradictions.

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    The Infinite Lottery Case is not a genuine counterexample to Countable Additivity

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