Corroboration, Explanation, Evolving Probability, Simplicity and a Sharpened Razor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8397128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I J Good (Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-143 |
| Publication date | 1968-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/19.2.123 |
| OpenAlex | W2024679720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 11 |
My aim is to discuss (degrees of) corroboration, explanatory power, and complexity, and the relationships between them, and to suggest a new form of Ockham's razor which is applicable in particular to practical statistical problems. It will be found necessary to distinguish between two meanings
Epistemology · Impossibility · Philosophy of science · Political science · Simplicity · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy
The Mathematics of Philosophy
Updating Subjective Probability
Bayesianism for Non-ideal Agents
Information and Explanatory Goodness
Coherence-based measures of explanatory power
The bayesian and the abductivist
Hume's Problem
Some future social repercussions of computers
On surfaces of constant societal loss in a model of social choice
How good is an explanation
Representing relevance
Explicativity, corroboration, and the relative odds of hypotheses
Conjunctive explanations
A simplification of the theory of simplicity
Irrelevant conjunction and the ratio measure or historical skepticism
State of the field
Comparing Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Power
A Good Explanation of an Event is not Necessarily Corroborated by the Event
Theoretical Simplicity and Defeasibility
A Reinstatement, in Response to Gillies, of Redhead's Argument in Support of Induction
A Pragmatic Modification of Explicativity for the Acceptance of Hypotheses
On the Logical Structure of Best Explanations
Twelve Questions about Keynes's Concept of Weight
Some Problems for Bayesian Confirmation Theory
Bayesianism and Support by Novel Facts
A Historical Comment Concerning Novel Confirmation
A Bayesian Approach in the Philosophy of Inference
New Axioms for Probability and Likelihood Ratio Measures
On Three Measures of Explanatory Power with Axiomatic Representations
Two Impossibility Results for Measures of Corroboration
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |