Download or read book The Objects of Credence written by Anna Mahtani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.