Helena Fang
Biographic Data
| ID | 9518320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Fang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Fang |
| SIGNATURE | FANG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7622-4533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Guessing and Its Limits
Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a question they aren't certain how to answer. This paper raises a novel problem for the thesis, focusing on belief reports in multi‐question scenarios. I introduce and motivate a plausible inter‐question principle for beli…
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Guessing and Its Limits
Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a question they aren't certain how to answer. This paper raises a novel problem for the thesis, focusing on belief reports in multi‐question scenarios. I introduce and motivate a plausible inter‐question principle for beli…
Analytic philosophy (1 works) · Belief revision (1 works) · Counterfactual conditional (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (1 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (1 works) · Philosophy of mind (1 works) · Philosophy of science (1 works) · Salient (1 works)