Statistics investigates and develops specific methods for evaluating hypotheses in the light
of empirical facts. A method is called statistical, and thus the subject of study in statistics, if it …

An inductive logic is a logic of evidential support. In a deductive logic, the premises of a valid
deductive argument logically entail the conclusion, where logical entailment means that …

This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and
critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the …

Summary This Element explores the Bayesian approach to the logic and epistemology of
scientific reasoning. Section 1 introduces the probability calculus as an appealing …

This paper describes the corner-stones of a means–ends approach to the philosophy of
inductive inference. I begin with a fallibilist ideal of convergence to the truth in the long run …

A piece of folklore enjoys some currency among philosophical Bayesians, according to
which Bayesian agents who, intuitively speaking, spread their credence over the entire …

This is this, this ain't something else, this is this-Robert De Niro, Deerhunter his book may to
some extent be viewed as the continuation of my T Doctoral thesis Epistemology …

Formal learning theory is the mathematical embodiment of a normative epistemology. It
deals with the question of how an agent should use observations about her environment to …

Bogen and Woodward (1988) advance adistinction between data and phenomena.
Roughly, theformer are the observations reported by experimentalscientists, the latter are …

This paper develops a means±end analysis of an inductive problem that arises in particle
physics: how to infer from observed reactions conservation principles that govern all …