Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations …
But what do these statements mean? This may be understood as a metaphysical question about what kinds of things are probabilities, or more generally as a question about what …
Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by" observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition …
In By Parallel Reasoning Paul Bartha proposes a normative theory of analogical arguments and raises questions and proposes answers regarding (i.) criteria for evaluating analogical …
When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective. We say and think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here …
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 …
On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world—of one's current thoughts and feelings—is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical …
This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and …
Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis …