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    Henry Kyburg — Carmelics
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    Henry Kyburg

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    1928 – 2007

    Henry E. Kyburg Jr. (1928–2007) was an American philosopher known for his work on probability, induction, and rational belief. He developed the theory of epistemological probability and is famous for formulating the lottery paradox, which challenges standard accounts of rational acceptance.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Formulated the lottery paradox

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    Developed a theory of epistemological probability

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    Advanced evidential probability as an alternative to Bayesianism

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    Authored 'Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief'

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    Contributed to formal epistemology and inductive logic

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    Skepticism

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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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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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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