‘Ramseyfying’ Probabilistic Comparativism

Comparativism is the view that comparative confidences (e.g., being more confident that P than that Q) are more fundamental than degrees of belief (e.g.,believing that P with some strength x). In this paper, I outline the basis for a new,non-probabilistic version of comparativism inspired by a suggestion made by Frank Ramsey in ‘Probability and Partial Belief’. I show how, and to what extent, ‘Ramseyan comparativism’ might be used to weaken the (unrealistically strong) probabilistic coherence conditions that comparativism traditionally relies on.