Ittay Nissan-Rozen
Biographic Data
| ID | 997785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ittay Nissan-Rozen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ittay |
| FAMILY NAME | Nissan-Rozen |
| SIGNATURE | NISSAN-ROZEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8970-4300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A contractualist approach to threshold deontology
Common sense morality follows – in many cases – the prescriptions of threshold deontology. Governments, for example, are expected to follow their own rules, but in the face of an extreme price increase, public opinion has often supported changing the rules ex post to increase tax revenues. Such moral license in extreme situations is puzzling from a philosophical and an economic point of view. We present a simple contractualist solution to this pu…
Empirical evidence for moral Bayesianism
Many philosophers in the field of meta-ethics believe that rational degrees of confidence in moral judgments should have a probabilistic structure, in the same way as do rational degrees of belief. The current paper examines this position, termed “moral Bayesianism,” from an empirical point of view. To this end, we assessed the extent to which degrees of moral judgments obey the third axiom of the probability calculus, ifPA∩B=0thenPA∪B=PA+PB, kno…
Libertarian Paternalism And Susan Hurley's political philosophy
As the use of nudges by governmental agencies becomes more common, the need for normative guidelines regarding the processes by which decisions about the implementation of specific nudges are taken becomes more acute. In order to find a justified set of such guidelines one must meet several theoretical challenges to Libertarian Paternalism that arise at the foundational level. In this paper, I identify three central challenges to Libertarian Pate…
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization
We present a new justification for methodological triangulation (MT), the practice of using different methods to support the same scientific claim. Unlike existing accounts, our account captures cases in which the different methods in question are associated with, and rely on, incommensurable theories. Using a nonstandard Bayesian model, we show that even in such cases, a commitment to the minimal form of epistemic conservatism, captured by the r…
Attitudes toward risk are complicated
Weighing and aggregating reasons under uncertainty
The intrinsic value of risky prospects
A pragmatic argument against equal weighting
Newcomb meets Gettier
On the Inadmissibility of Some Historical Information
I argue—from a Humean perspective—for the falsity of what I call the “Admissibility of Historical Information Thesis” ( AHIT ). According to the AHIT , propositions that describe past events are always admissible with respect to propositions that describe future events. I first demonstrate that this thesis has some counter‐intuitive implications and argue that a Humean can explain the intuitive attractiveness of the AHIT by arguing that it result…
A triviality result for the “Desire by Necessity” thesis
Jeffrey Conditionalization, the Principal Principle, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and Adams’s Thesis
I show that David Lewis’s principal principle is not preserved under Jeffrey conditionalization. Using this observation, I argue that Lewis’s reason for rejecting the desire as belief thesis and Adams’s thesis applies also to his own principal principle. 1 Introduction 2 Adams’s Thesis, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and the Principal Principle 3 Jeffrey Conditionalization 4 The Principal Principles Not Preserved under Jeffrey Conditionalization 5 …
The intrinsic value of risky prospects
Jeffrey Conditionalization, the Principal Principle, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and Adams’s Thesis
I show that David Lewis’s principal principle is not preserved under Jeffrey conditionalization. Using this observation, I argue that Lewis’s reason for rejecting the desire as belief thesis and Adams’s thesis applies also to his own principal principle. 1 Introduction 2 Adams’s Thesis, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and the Principal Principle 3 Jeffrey Conditionalization 4 The Principal Principles Not Preserved under Jeffrey Conditionalization 5 …
On the Inadmissibility of Some Historical Information
I argue—from a Humean perspective—for the falsity of what I call the “Admissibility of Historical Information Thesis” ( AHIT ). According to the AHIT , propositions that describe past events are always admissible with respect to propositions that describe future events. I first demonstrate that this thesis has some counter‐intuitive implications and argue that a Humean can explain the intuitive attractiveness of the AHIT by arguing that it result…
Jeffrey Conditionalization, the Principal Principle, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and Adams’s Thesis
I show that David Lewis’s principal principle is not preserved under Jeffrey conditionalization. Using this observation, I argue that Lewis’s reason for rejecting the desire as belief thesis and Adams’s thesis applies also to his own principal principle. 1 Introduction 2 Adams’s Thesis, the Desire as Belief Thesis, and the Principal Principle 3 Jeffrey Conditionalization 4 The Principal Principles Not Preserved under Jeffrey Conditionalization 5 …
A triviality result for the “Desire by Necessity” thesis
Newcomb meets Gettier
On the Inadmissibility of Some Historical Information
I argue—from a Humean perspective—for the falsity of what I call the “Admissibility of Historical Information Thesis” ( AHIT ). According to the AHIT , propositions that describe past events are always admissible with respect to propositions that describe future events. I first demonstrate that this thesis has some counter‐intuitive implications and argue that a Humean can explain the intuitive attractiveness of the AHIT by arguing that it result…
A pragmatic argument against equal weighting
Weighing and aggregating reasons under uncertainty
The intrinsic value of risky prospects
Attitudes toward risk are complicated
Empirical evidence for moral Bayesianism
Many philosophers in the field of meta-ethics believe that rational degrees of confidence in moral judgments should have a probabilistic structure, in the same way as do rational degrees of belief. The current paper examines this position, termed “moral Bayesianism,” from an empirical point of view. To this end, we assessed the extent to which degrees of moral judgments obey the third axiom of the probability calculus, ifPA∩B=0thenPA∪B=PA+PB, kno…
Libertarian Paternalism And Susan Hurley's political philosophy
As the use of nudges by governmental agencies becomes more common, the need for normative guidelines regarding the processes by which decisions about the implementation of specific nudges are taken becomes more acute. In order to find a justified set of such guidelines one must meet several theoretical challenges to Libertarian Paternalism that arise at the foundational level. In this paper, I identify three central challenges to Libertarian Pate…
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization
We present a new justification for methodological triangulation (MT), the practice of using different methods to support the same scientific claim. Unlike existing accounts, our account captures cases in which the different methods in question are associated with, and rely on, incommensurable theories. Using a nonstandard Bayesian model, we show that even in such cases, a commitment to the minimal form of epistemic conservatism, captured by the r…
A contractualist approach to threshold deontology
Common sense morality follows – in many cases – the prescriptions of threshold deontology. Governments, for example, are expected to follow their own rules, but in the face of an extreme price increase, public opinion has often supported changing the rules ex post to increase tax revenues. Such moral license in extreme situations is puzzling from a philosophical and an economic point of view. We present a simple contractualist solution to this pu…
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophy of language (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Mathematical economics (3 works)