PHL 187 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Expected Utility Hypothesis, Natural Evil
29 Jan 2016
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Prudential reasons are reasons to benefit an individual without any evidential reason. Therefore, there are external reasons other than the belief. When someone believes it for self-interest, for example attaining money for it to being right. Evidential reasons are evidences to show proof, where you have reason to believe it and there is evidence to back up the claim: consider this situation: you are rolling a single die and you get paid. . 20 if you roll either a 1,2,3 or 4 but you have to pay . 50 if you roll a 5 or 6. Payoff times chance risk times chance = expected utility (4/6) * . 20 = 0. 80 - (2/6) * . 50 = sh. 50 = sh. 30. The expected utility for this game is sh. 30: try to explain clifford"s objection against pascal"s (and jame"s) argument. Clifford"s objection against pascal"s and jame"s argument is that you must not believe anything without sufficient evidence.
