William Peden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 987435 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William Peden |
| NOMBRES | William |
| APELLIDO | Peden |
| FIRMA | PEDEN W |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3474-7861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1944 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ambiguity, Coherence and Performance
Imprecise Bayesianism has been proposed as an alternative to Standard Bayesianism, partly because of its tools for representing ambiguity. Instead of representing credences via precise probabilities, a set of probability distributions is used to model belief states. However, there are criticisms of Imprecise Bayesianism’s update rule. A recent alternative update rule is Alpha Cut, which evades some of the primary criticisms of Imprecise Bayesian …
Does the no miracles argument apply to AI
According to the standard no miracles argument, science’s predictive success is best explained by the approximate truth of its theories. In contemporary science, however, machine learning systems, such as AlphaFold2, are also remarkably predictively successful. Thus, we might ask what best explains such successes. Might these AIs accurately represent critical aspects of their targets in the world? And if so, does a variant of the no miracles argu…
The Ambiguity Dilemma for Imprecise Bayesians
How should we make decisions when we do not know the relevant physical probabilities? In these ambiguous situations, we cannot use our knowledge to determine expected utilities or payoffs. The traditional Bayesian answer is that we should create a probability distribution using some mix of subjective intuition and objective constraints. Imprecise Bayesians argue that this approach is inadequate for modelling ambiguity. Instead, they represent dox…
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability
Evidentialists say that a necessary condition of sound epistemic reasoning is that our beliefs reflect only our evidence. This thesis arguably conflicts with standard Bayesianism, due to the importance of prior probabilities in the latter. Some evidentialists have responded by modelling belief-states using imprecise probabilities (Joyce 2005). However, Roger White \n (2010) and Aron Vallinder (2018) argue that this Imprecise Bayesianism is incomp…
Does the Dome Defeat the Material Theory of Induction
According to John D. Norton's Material Theory of Induction, all inductive inferences are justified by local facts, rather than their formal features or some grand principles of nature's uniformity. Recently, Richard Dawid (Found Phys 45(9):1101–1109, 2015) has offered a challenge to this theory: in an adaptation of Norton's own celebrated "Dome" thought experiment, it seems that there are certain inductions that are intuitively reasonable, but wh…
A Battle in the Statistics Wars
The debates between Bayesian, frequentist, and other methodologies of statistics have tended to focus on conceptual justifications, sociological arguments, or mathematical proofs of their long run properties. Both Bayesian statistics and frequentist (“classical”) statistics have strong cases on these grounds. In this article, we instead approach the debates in the “Statistics Wars” from a largely unexplored angle: simulations of different methodo…
The Bayesian Era in the philosophy of science
Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction
John D. Norton’s “Material Theory of Induction” has been one of the most intriguing recent additions to the philosophy of induction. Norton’s account appears to be a notably natural account of actual inductive practices, although his theory (especially his answer to the Problem of Induction) has attracted considerable criticism. I detail several novel issues for his theory but argue that supplementing the Material Theory with a theory of direct i…
Boundaries, blunders, and scientific imperialism
The Free Religious Association of America, 1867-1920
Some Notes on Quiroga's Stories
The American Short Story
Writers on the Left
Writers on the Left provides a chronicle of the involvement of American writers with the critical style and politics of communism. Emphasizing the golden age of American communism, Aaron traces the movement's bohemian origins to its demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive portrait of writers like Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. Aaron also discusses the attractions of communism for more ambivalent bu…
Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker
Notes on the State of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia
Journal Article Notes on the State of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson. Edited with an introductory note by William Peden. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1955. xxvi + 315 pp. Map, appendixes, notes, and index. $5.00.) Get access Elizabeth Cometti Elizabeth Cometti Marshall College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Notes on the State of Virginia
The Trying-out of Moby-Dick
Jefferson the Virginian
Thomas Jefferson among the Arts
A Book Peddler Invades Monticello
HE aggressive tactics of the modern Fuller Brush Man were not unknown even in Thomas Jefferson's day. For example, the traveling salesman, Samuel Whitcomb, Jr., approached the entrance of Monticello, knocked, and waited. When the master himself answered, the brash intruder unhesitatingly introduced himself, gained his entrance, and offered his wares. Jefferson refused to buy; but did the peddler leave? For nearly an hour he stayed on, badgering t…
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital Containing Notes and Correspondence Exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and Others, Re…
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
A Battle in the Statistics Wars
The debates between Bayesian, frequentist, and other methodologies of statistics have tended to focus on conceptual justifications, sociological arguments, or mathematical proofs of their long run properties. Both Bayesian statistics and frequentist (“classical”) statistics have strong cases on these grounds. In this article, we instead approach the debates in the “Statistics Wars” from a largely unexplored angle: simulations of different methodo…
The Bayesian Era in the philosophy of science
Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction
John D. Norton’s “Material Theory of Induction” has been one of the most intriguing recent additions to the philosophy of induction. Norton’s account appears to be a notably natural account of actual inductive practices, although his theory (especially his answer to the Problem of Induction) has attracted considerable criticism. I detail several novel issues for his theory but argue that supplementing the Material Theory with a theory of direct i…
Some Notes Concerning Thomas Jefferson's Libraries
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams. Edited and with an Introduction by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. xxxix + 410 pp. Frontispiece, illustration, bibliographical note, and index. $4.50.) Get access Major B. Jenks Major B. Jenks Fenn CollegeCleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 3, December 1946, Page…
The New Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital Containing Notes and Correspondence Exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and Others, Re…
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson the Virginian
Thomas Jefferson among the Arts
A Book Peddler Invades Monticello
HE aggressive tactics of the modern Fuller Brush Man were not unknown even in Thomas Jefferson's day. For example, the traveling salesman, Samuel Whitcomb, Jr., approached the entrance of Monticello, knocked, and waited. When the master himself answered, the brash intruder unhesitatingly introduced himself, gained his entrance, and offered his wares. Jefferson refused to buy; but did the peddler leave? For nearly an hour he stayed on, badgering t…
The Trying-out of Moby-Dick
Notes on the State of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia
Journal Article Notes on the State of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson. Edited with an introductory note by William Peden. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1955. xxvi + 315 pp. Map, appendixes, notes, and index. $5.00.) Get access Elizabeth Cometti Elizabeth Cometti Marshall College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker
Writers on the Left
Writers on the Left provides a chronicle of the involvement of American writers with the critical style and politics of communism. Emphasizing the golden age of American communism, Aaron traces the movement's bohemian origins to its demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive portrait of writers like Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. Aaron also discusses the attractions of communism for more ambivalent bu…
The American Short Story
Some Notes on Quiroga's Stories
The Free Religious Association of America, 1867-1920
Boundaries, blunders, and scientific imperialism
Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction
John D. Norton’s “Material Theory of Induction” has been one of the most intriguing recent additions to the philosophy of induction. Norton’s account appears to be a notably natural account of actual inductive practices, although his theory (especially his answer to the Problem of Induction) has attracted considerable criticism. I detail several novel issues for his theory but argue that supplementing the Material Theory with a theory of direct i…
The Bayesian Era in the philosophy of science
A Battle in the Statistics Wars
The debates between Bayesian, frequentist, and other methodologies of statistics have tended to focus on conceptual justifications, sociological arguments, or mathematical proofs of their long run properties. Both Bayesian statistics and frequentist (“classical”) statistics have strong cases on these grounds. In this article, we instead approach the debates in the “Statistics Wars” from a largely unexplored angle: simulations of different methodo…
Does the Dome Defeat the Material Theory of Induction
According to John D. Norton's Material Theory of Induction, all inductive inferences are justified by local facts, rather than their formal features or some grand principles of nature's uniformity. Recently, Richard Dawid (Found Phys 45(9):1101–1109, 2015) has offered a challenge to this theory: in an adaptation of Norton's own celebrated "Dome" thought experiment, it seems that there are certain inductions that are intuitively reasonable, but wh…
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