Katrina Elliott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina Elliott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliott |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1552-4945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes
Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of causal and explanatory relations in our world, but also are the worldly basis of causal and explanatory directions. We raise questions about Woodward’s envisioned epistemology, but our primary focus is on his metaphysics. We argu…
Inference to the best explanation and the new size elitism 1
Inference to the best explanation supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis would, were it true, provide the best explanation of our evidence.Call this the "subjunctive conception" of IBE.Inference to the best explanation also supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis best exemplifies the theoretical virtues, such as antecedent plausibility, lack of ad hoc elements, simplicity, and breadth of scop…
Where are the chances
Explaining (One Aspect of) the Principal Principle without (Much) Metaphysics
According to David Lewis’s Principal Principle, our beliefs about the objective chances of outcomes (typically) determine our rational credences in those outcomes. Lewis influentially argues that any adequate metaphysics of objective chance must explain why the Principal Principle holds. Since no theory of chance is widely agreed to have met this burden, I suggest we change tack. On the view I develop, a central aspect of the Principal Principle …
Explaining (One Aspect of) the Principal Principle without (Much) Metaphysics
According to David Lewis’s Principal Principle, our beliefs about the objective chances of outcomes (typically) determine our rational credences in those outcomes. Lewis influentially argues that any adequate metaphysics of objective chance must explain why the Principal Principle holds. Since no theory of chance is widely agreed to have met this burden, I suggest we change tack. On the view I develop, a central aspect of the Principal Principle …
Inference to the best explanation and the new size elitism 1
Inference to the best explanation supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis would, were it true, provide the best explanation of our evidence.Call this the "subjunctive conception" of IBE.Inference to the best explanation also supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis best exemplifies the theoretical virtues, such as antecedent plausibility, lack of ad hoc elements, simplicity, and breadth of scop…
Explaining (One Aspect of) the Principal Principle without (Much) Metaphysics
According to David Lewis’s Principal Principle, our beliefs about the objective chances of outcomes (typically) determine our rational credences in those outcomes. Lewis influentially argues that any adequate metaphysics of objective chance must explain why the Principal Principle holds. Since no theory of chance is widely agreed to have met this burden, I suggest we change tack. On the view I develop, a central aspect of the Principal Principle …
Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes
Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of causal and explanatory relations in our world, but also are the worldly basis of causal and explanatory directions. We raise questions about Woodward’s envisioned epistemology, but our primary focus is on his metaphysics. We argu…
Inference to the best explanation and the new size elitism 1
Inference to the best explanation supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis would, were it true, provide the best explanation of our evidence.Call this the "subjunctive conception" of IBE.Inference to the best explanation also supposedly directs us to be most confident in whichever hypothesis best exemplifies the theoretical virtues, such as antecedent plausibility, lack of ad hoc elements, simplicity, and breadth of scop…
Where are the chances
Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)