McCoy, C.D. (2017) The implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihoods in cosmology. [Preprint]

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I discuss the formal implementation, interpretation, and justification of likelihood attributions in cosmology. I show that likelihood arguments in cosmology suffer from significant conceptual and formal problems that undermine their epistemic credentials.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID McCoy, C.D. casey.mccoy@ed.ac.uk 0000-0002-7921-4911
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Depositing User:	Dr. Casey McCoy
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2017 14:33
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2017 14:33
Item ID:	13165
Official URL:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.05.002
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Date:	21 February 2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13165

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