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0000-0002-4387-7967
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University of Leeds
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-08-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-10-2016
DOI: 10.1093/MIND/FZV180
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-07-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11229-019-02308-4
Abstract: According to the preference-centric approach to understanding partial belief, the connection between partial beliefs and preferences is key to understanding what partial beliefs are and how they’re measured. As Ramsey put it, the ‘degree of a belief is a causal property of it, which we can express vaguely as the extent to which we are prepared to act on it’ (in: Braithwaite (ed) The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays, Routledge, Oxon, pp 156–198, 1931). But this idea is not as popular as it once was. Nowadays, the preference-centric approach is frequently dismissed out-of-hand as behaviouristic, unpalatably anti-realist, and/or prone to devastating counterex les. Cases like Eriksson and Hájek’s (Stud Log 86(2):183–213, 2007) preferenceless Zen monk and Christensen’s (Philos Sci 68(3):356–376, 2001) other roles argument have suggested to many that any account of partial belief that ties them too closely to preferences is irretrievably flawed. In this paper I provide a defence of preference-centric accounts of partial belief.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2020
DOI: 10.1086/709785
Abstract: Comparativism is the view that comparative confidences (e.g., being more confident that P than that Q ) are more fundamental than degrees of belief (e.g., believing that P with some strength x ). I outline the basis for a new, nonprobabilistic version of comparativism inspired by a suggestion made by Frank Ramsey in “Probability and Partial Belief.” I show how, and to what extent, ‘Ramseyan comparativism’ might be used to weaken the (unrealistically strong) probabilistic coherence conditions that comparativism traditionally relies on.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-12-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-06-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.EJCA.2013.07.144
Abstract: In a recent randomised, double-blind, phase III clinical trial among 1195 patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who had failed docetaxel chemotherapy, abiraterone acetate was shown to significantly prolong overall survival compared with prednisone alone. Here we report on the impact of abiraterone therapy on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) observed during this trial, assessed using the validated Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Prostate (FACT-P) questionnaire. All analyses were conducted using prespecified criteria for clinically meaningful improvement and deterioration in FACT-P total score as well as subscale scores all respective thresholds were defined using an accepted methodology. Improvement was assessed only in patients with clinically significant functional status impairment at baseline. Significant improvements in the FACT-P total score were observed in 48% of patients receiving abiraterone versus 32% of patients receiving prednisone (p < 0.0001). Also, the median time to deterioration in FACT-P total score was longer (p < 0.0001) in patients receiving abiraterone (59.9 weeks versus 36.1 weeks). Similar differences were observed in all FACT-P subscales, with the exception of the social/family well-being domain. Median time to improvement in the physical well-being domain and the trial outcome index was significantly shorter (p < 0.01) with abiraterone when compared with the prednisone arm. The previously demonstrated survival benefit for abiraterone is accompanied by improvements in patient-reported HRQoL and a significant delay in HRQoL deterioration when compared with prednisone.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-10-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S10670-020-00329-X
Abstract: According to comparativism , degrees of belief are reducible to a system of purely ordinal comparisons of relative confidence. (For ex le, being more confident that P than that Q , or being equally confident that P and that Q .) In this paper, I raise several general challenges for comparativism, relating to (1) its capacity to illuminate apparently meaningful claims regarding intervals and ratios of strengths of belief, (2) its capacity to draw enough intuitively meaningful and theoretically relevant distinctions between doxastic states, and (3) its capacity to handle common instances of irrationality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-03-2021
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2019
Funder: European Commission
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