Dutch book in simple multivariate normal prediction: Another look

Internalism implies that rationality requires nothing more than what in the broadest sense counts as ‘coherence’. The earlier chapters of this book argue that rationality is in a strong sense normative. But why does coherence matter? The interpretation of this question is clarified. An answer to the question would involve a general characterization of rationality that makes it intuitively less puzzling why rationality is in this strong sense normative. Various approaches to this question are explored: a deflationary approach, the appeal to ‘Dutch book’ theorems, the idea that rationality is constitutive of the nature of mental states. It is argued that none of these approaches solves the problem. An adequate solution will have to appeal to some value that depends partly on how things are in the external world—in effect, an external goal—and some normatively significant connection between internal rationality and this external goal.

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The Axiom of Choice Machine

10.1093/oso/9780198810339.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander R. Pruss

Keyword(s):

Set Theory ◽

Laws Of Nature ◽

Axiom Of Choice ◽

Dutch Book ◽

The Axiom Of Choice

This is a mainly technical chapter concerning the causal embodiment of the Axiom of Choice from set theory. The Axiom of Choice powered a construction of an infinite fair lottery in Chapter 4 and a die-rolling strategy in Chapter 5. For those applications to work, there has to be a causally implementable (though perhaps not compatible with our laws of nature) way to implement the Axiom of Choice—and, for our purposes, it is ideal if that involves infinite causal histories, so the causal finitist can reject it. Such a construction is offered. Moreover, other paradoxes involving the Axiom of Choice are given, including two Dutch Book paradoxes connected with the Banach–Tarski paradox. Again, all this is argued to provide evidence for causal finitism.

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Performing in Dutch Book Publishing 1880–2008: the Importance of Entrepreneurial Experience and the Amsterdam Cluster

Making Places While Building Networks. An exploration of the role of the urban environment in book publishing ◽

10.1017/9789048517862.003 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 55-84

Keyword(s):

Book Publishing ◽

Dutch Book ◽

Entrepreneurial Experience

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The Jesuitesses in the Bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters’ Participation in the Dutch Book Trade, 1650–1750

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/stc.2021.9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 163-184

Author(s):

Elise Watson

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Print Culture ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Literary Culture ◽

Book Trade ◽

Dutch Book ◽

Dutch Republic ◽

Institutional Critique ◽

Public Criticism

The institutional Catholic Church in seventeenth-century Amsterdam relied on the work of inspired women who lived under an informal religious rule and called themselves ‘spiritual daughters’. Once the States of Holland banned all public exercise of Catholicism, spiritual daughters leveraged the ambiguity of their religious status to pursue unique roles in their communities as catechists, booksellers and enthusiastic consumers of print. However, their lack of a formal order caused consternation among their Catholic confessors. It also disturbed Reformed authorities in their communities, who branded them ‘Jesuitesses’. Whilst many scholars have documented this tension between inspired daughter and institutional critique, it has yet to be contextualized fully within the literary culture of the Dutch Republic. This article suggests that due to the de-institutionalized status of the spiritual daughters and the discursive print culture that surrounded them, public criticism replaced direct censure by Catholic and Reformed authorities as the primary impediment to their inspired work.

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