Some mixed strategies can evade Pascal's Wager: a reply to Monton
Analysis 72 (2):295-298 (2012)
| Abstract | The mixed strategy response to Pascal’s Wager avoids Pascal’s conclusion by noting that there are ways to obtain infinite expected utility other than believing in God. We can, for instance, flip a coin and believe in God if the coin lands heads. Bradley Monton has recently argued that rationality requires us to apply mixed strategies repeatedly until we believe in God, and thus that mixed strategies do not evade the Wager. I offer three mixed strategies meet the requirements of rationality but avoid Monton’s result | |||||||||
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