Belot, Gordon (2013) Bayesian Orgulity. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A piece of folklore enjoys some currency among philosophical Bayesians, according to which Bayesian agents that, intuitively speaking, spread their credence over the entire space of available hypotheses are certain to converge to the truth. The goals of the present discussion are to show that kernel of truth in this folklore is in some ways fairly small and to argue that Bayesian convergence-to-the-truth results are a liability for Bayesianism as an account of rationality, since they render a certain sort of arrogance rationally mandatory.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Keywords: | Bayesianism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Formal Learning Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Gordon Belot | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2013 14:15 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2013 14:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 9834 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Formal Learning Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | 14 June 2013 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9834 |
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