Michael Schippers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Schippers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Schippers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIPPERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The logic of coherence
Genuine Confirmation and Tacking by Conjunction
Tacking by conjunction is a deep problem for Bayesian confirmation theory. It is based on the insight that to each hypothesis h that is confirmed by a piece of evidence e one can ‘tack’ an irrelevant hypothesis h′ so that h∧h′ is also confirmed by e. This seems counter-intuitive. Existing Bayesian solution proposals try to soften the negative impact of this result by showing that although h∧h′ is confirmed by e, it is so only to a lower degree. I…
Coherence and Common Causes: Against Relevance-Sensitive Measures of Coherence
Changing weather conditions and barometer changes usually coincide. Accordingly, the propositions that my barometer falls and that the weather conditions deteriorate are quite coherent—especially under the assumption that there is a drop in atmospheric pressure. Nevertheless, scenarios like these involving common causes turn out to be highly problematic for a prominent class of probabilistic coherence measures, namely, those explicating coherence…
A Representation Theorem for Absolute Confirmation
Proposals for rigorously explicating the concept of confirmation in probabilistic terms abound. To foster discussions on the formal properties of the proposed measures, recent years have seen the upshot of a number of representation theorems that uniquely determine a confirmation measure (up to ordinal equivalence) based on a number of desiderata. However, the results that have been presented so far focus exclusively on the concept of incremental…
Competing accounts of contrastive coherence
Against relative overlap measures of coherence
Coherence, striking agreement, and reliability: On a putative vindication of the Shogenji measure
Probabilistic measures of coherence: From adequacy constraints towards pluralism
Probabilistic measures of coherence: From adequacy constraints towards pluralism
Genuine Confirmation and Tacking by Conjunction
Tacking by conjunction is a deep problem for Bayesian confirmation theory. It is based on the insight that to each hypothesis h that is confirmed by a piece of evidence e one can ‘tack’ an irrelevant hypothesis h′ so that h∧h′ is also confirmed by e. This seems counter-intuitive. Existing Bayesian solution proposals try to soften the negative impact of this result by showing that although h∧h′ is confirmed by e, it is so only to a lower degree. I…
Against relative overlap measures of coherence
Coherence, striking agreement, and reliability: On a putative vindication of the Shogenji measure
Competing accounts of contrastive coherence
Coherence, striking agreement, and reliability: On a putative vindication of the Shogenji measure
Probabilistic measures of coherence: From adequacy constraints towards pluralism
Competing accounts of contrastive coherence
Against relative overlap measures of coherence
A Representation Theorem for Absolute Confirmation
Proposals for rigorously explicating the concept of confirmation in probabilistic terms abound. To foster discussions on the formal properties of the proposed measures, recent years have seen the upshot of a number of representation theorems that uniquely determine a confirmation measure (up to ordinal equivalence) based on a number of desiderata. However, the results that have been presented so far focus exclusively on the concept of incremental…
Coherence and Common Causes: Against Relevance-Sensitive Measures of Coherence
Changing weather conditions and barometer changes usually coincide. Accordingly, the propositions that my barometer falls and that the weather conditions deteriorate are quite coherent—especially under the assumption that there is a drop in atmospheric pressure. Nevertheless, scenarios like these involving common causes turn out to be highly problematic for a prominent class of probabilistic coherence measures, namely, those explicating coherence…
Genuine Confirmation and Tacking by Conjunction
Tacking by conjunction is a deep problem for Bayesian confirmation theory. It is based on the insight that to each hypothesis h that is confirmed by a piece of evidence e one can ‘tack’ an irrelevant hypothesis h′ so that h∧h′ is also confirmed by e. This seems counter-intuitive. Existing Bayesian solution proposals try to soften the negative impact of this result by showing that although h∧h′ is confirmed by e, it is so only to a lower degree. I…
The logic of coherence
Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Probabilistic logic (6 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works)