Rachel Briggs (Standord)
Title: "Chances and Impossibilities"
I present an argument that impossible worlds are useful for modeling objective chances. The argument includes a negative part, where I argue that the epistemic and decision theoretic roles of chance are not enough to rule out the use of impossible worlds, and a positive part, where I argue that using impossible worlds solves two philosophical puzzles: David Lewis's Big Bad Bug, and one of Arif Ahmed's recent counterexamples to causal decision theory.
Reception immediately following in Crowe 1-140
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