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    Michael Titelbaum

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy, Formal Epistemology

    Michael G. Titelbaum is an American philosopher specializing in epistemology, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of probability. He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for his work on rational belief revision, self-locating beliefs, and the foundations of Bayesian reasoning.

    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology' (2022), a comprehensive two-volume treatment of Bayesian reasoning

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    Developed influential accounts of rational belief revision and updating policies

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    Advanced debates on self-locating beliefs and the Sleeping Beauty problem

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    Contributed to the foundations of probability theory, including defenses of countable additivity

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    Established connections between formal epistemology and traditional epistemological questions

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

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