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Memory, belief and time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Brian Weatherson
Brian Weatherson*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Abstract

I argue that what evidence an agent has does not supervene on how she currently is. Agents do not always have to infer what the past was like from how things currently seem; sometimes the facts about the past are retained pieces of evidence that can be the start of reasoning. The main argument is a variant on Frank Arntzenius’s Shangri La example, an example that is often used to motivate the thought that evidence does supervene on current features.

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Memoryknowledgebeliefrationalitytime
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 45 , Issue 5-6: Special Issue: Belief, Action, and Rationality over Time , December 2015 , pp. 692 - 715
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2015

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