Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10698639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Christensen (0000-0001-5255-0029) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Bayes or bust?: A critical examination of Bayesian confirmation theory, John Earman, 1992 |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185741 |
| OpenAlex | W2141027875 |
| Language | EN |
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Bayes' theorem · Bayesian probability · Boom · Bust · Econometrics · Economics · Epistemology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Risk, Precaution, and Emerging Technologies
The Paradox of Confirmation1
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Is the mind Bayesian? The case for agnosticism
Not Enough There There Evidence, Reasons, and Language Independence
Confirmation and explaining how possible
Social Research and ‘Race’ Policy Framing in Britain and France
The nature of juridical proof
Uncomfortable bedfellows
Choosing between two conflicting scientific hypotheses
Building Communities, Bridging Gaps
Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations
Reliable Knowledge and Unreliable Stuff
Swinburne's argument for the existence of God
How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction
The Necessity of Being Comparative
Bayesian Merging of Opinions and Algorithmic Randomness
In praise of the null hypothesis statistical test
Carnap, Quine, and Putnam on Methods of Inquiry
Socratic Epistemology
Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism?
Race Politics in Britain and France
The mother of all isms
Invariance, Symmetry And Rationality
Severe Testing as a Basic Concept in a Neyman–Pearson Philosophy of Induction
Learning to Coordinate; a Recursion Theoretic Perspective
The Scope, Limits, and Distinctiveness of the Method of 'Deduction from the Phenomena
Confirmation, Explanation, and Logical Strength
De Finetti, Countable Additivity, Consistency and Coherence
Theories of Probability
In Defense of Reverse Inference
Subjective Probabilities as Basis for Scientific Reasoning
Hempel's Raven Paradox
A Paradigm-Based Solution to the Riddle of Induction
Deterministic Convergence and Strong Regularity
Bayes not Bust! Why Simplicity is no Problem for Bayesians
The Rational Analysis Of Mind And Behavior
Truth in Evidence and Truth in Arguments without Logical Omniscience
Curve-Fitting for Bayesians
The Quantitative Problem of Old Evidence
Genuine Confirmation and Tacking by Conjunction
The logic of success
Bayesian Confirmation
Variation and the Accuracy of Predictions
The feasibility and malleability of EBM
The Rehabilitation of Deductive Reasoning
Conjectures and Disconfirmations
You say you want a revolution
Real and ideal rationality
Fragmentation and logical omniscience
Distinguished Lecture in Archeology
Truth-Seeking by Abduction
Modelling Epistemic Systems
Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle
Estimating Impact
Rationalities in History
The Possibility Principle
A Set-Theoretic Approach to Bayesian Process Tracing
The kinematics of belief and desire
The logic of empirical theories revisited
Bayesian Confirmation Theory and The Likelihood Principle
The logic of coherence
Confirmation and the generalized Nagel–Schaffner model of reduction
Justifying inference to the best explanation as a practical meta-syllogism on dialectical structures
New theory about old evidence
Irrelevant conjunction and the ratio measure or historical skepticism
Logic with numbers
On the significance of conditional probabilities
Finite additivity, another lottery paradox and conditionalisation
The variety-of-evidence thesis
Reconsidering the miracle argument on the supposition of transient underdetermination
Linguistics and the explanatory economy
A pluralistic account of epistemic rationality
Unconceived alternatives and the cathedral problem
Logical ignorance and logical learning
Assessing theories, Bayes style
Measuring the overall incoherence of credence functions
Bayesian representation of a prolonged archaeological debate
Simultaneous belief updates via successive Jeffrey conditionalization
Tracking probabilistic truths
On the role of explanatory and systematic power in scientific reasoning
The new Tweety puzzle
Evidentialism and belief polarization
A Bayesian explanation of the irrationality of sexist and racist beliefs involving generic content
Model change and reliability in scientific inference
An impossibility theorem for amalgamating evidence
Epistemic values and the value of learning
Conditional Degree of Belief and Bayesian Inference
Error Probabilities in Error
The Dark Matter Double Bind
Bayesianism and Diverse Evidence
The Problem of Measure Sensitivity Redux
Bayesianism and the Value of Diverse Evidence
Use-Novelty, Severity, and a Systematic Neglect of Relevant Alternatives
Some Difficulties for the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
A Logic of Induction
Radical Probabilism and Bayesian Conditioning
Big Data Biology
Beyond Bayesianism
The Plurality of Bayesian Measures of Confirmation and the Problem of Measure Sensitivity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |