Alexander Pruss's Blog

In discussions of maximization of expected value, the Law of Large Numbers is sometimes invoked, at times—especially by me—off-handedly. Acc...

Van Inwagen’s replay experiment is supposed to show that indeterministic free will is problematic. We imagine someone choosing betweeen A a...

Fact: For any real-valued function f , measurable or not, on a probability space, there exists a largest measurable function f L...

Let X 1 , X 2 ,... be a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables. Let H be a set of values, and let R n ( H ) be ...

People do things that seem to be irrational in respect of maximizing expected utilities. For instance, art collectors buy insurance, ...