Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals of …
K Easwaran - Philosophy Compass, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In the first paper, I discussed the basic claims of Bayesianism (that degrees of belief are important, that they obey the axioms of probability theory, and that they are rationally …
We can think of belief as an all-or-nothing affair. For example, I believe that I am alive, and I don't believe that I am a historian of the Mongol Empire. However, often we want to make …
K Easwaran - Philosophy Compass, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesianism is a popular position (or perhaps, positions) in the philosophy of science, epistemology, statistics, and other related areas, which represents belief as coming in …
Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief). The main principles that …
Foundations of Bayesianism is an authoritative collection of papers addressing the key challenges that face the Bayesian interpretation of probability today. Some of these papers …
Everyone agrees that it is good to know. We however believe many more things than we know, which has made the notion of belief a target of recent work in epistemology. Not only …
Abstract 'Bayesian epistemology'became an epistemological movement in the 20th century, though its two main features can be traced back to the eponymous Reverend Thomas Bayes …
R Pettigrew - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2016 - JSTOR
In Bayesian epistemology, the problem of the priors is this: How should we set our credences (or degrees of belief) in the absence of evidence? That is, how should we set our …