The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs

How much do I learn when I learn what time it is, or where I am, or who I am? Beliefs about one's spatio temporal location and beliefs about one's identity are often called "self-locating" beliefs.1 Typically when an agent learns self-locating information she learns some non-self-locating information as well. Consider an agent who is on a long plane flight and isn't sure when the plane will land. If she learns that it is now 6 p.m., she also learns that the flight lands after 6 p.m. One might argue that in this example the self-locating information is learned and then the non-self-locating information is inferred, but for simplicity's sake we will count both information that is explicitly presented to an agent and what she can infer from that information given her background as "learned."2 Even after we lump all this information together as learned, there are non-self-locating conclusions beyond what the agent learns in which she