One central property of chance is that, when known, it constrains rational belief to take the same numerical value.

Among his other main philosophical questions are: What is the connection between rational belief and rational action?

Wilson says that's a perfectly rational belief.

They almost suggest that, if applied correctly, critical doubt would rule out all answers other than their own and establish humanism as the only rational belief.

"There has never been any rational belief that beta carotene could neutralize the effects of smoking," he said.

That makes a mockery of the rules and undermines rational belief in their fairness.

He scorns society's attempts to repress pornography, explaining that the imagination is more powerful than our rational beliefs.

What is life if not a constant patrolling of those ever-porous mental borders between rational beliefs and irrational prejudices?

(1986) includes his work on counterfactuals, causation, and decision theory, where he promotes his Principal Principle about rational belief.

The only point in this argument that may appear open to suspicion is that this rational belief presupposes the existence of moral sentiments.