de Canson, Chloé (2025) Bayesianism and the Inferential Solution to Hume’s Problem. [Preprint]
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I examine Howson’s alluring suggestion that Bayesianism, by supplying a logic of inductive inference—conditionalisation—solves the problem of induction. I draw on his historical heritage, especially Hume, Peirce, and Ramsey, to reconstruct the interpretation of the problem of induction that his remarks intimates. Roughly, it is that of how to amend the system with which one meets the world, in the light of new particulars. Unfortunately, his claim that conditionalisation constitutes a solution to this problem, I argue, fails by his own lights, because it turns on the widely endorsed but nonetheless erroneous contention that a justification of conditionalisation qua rule of inference can be given independently from a justification of the priors.
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| Keywords: | Induction, inductive inference, conditionalisation, problem of the priors, Bayesianism, Ramsey, Peirce, Hume | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Formal Learning Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Chloé de Canson | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2025 10:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2025 10:52 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 26812 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophers' Imprint | ||||||
| Publisher: | Michigan Publishing | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philpapers.org/rec/CANBAT-3 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.7819 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Formal Learning Theory |
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| Date: | 2025 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1533-628X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26812 |
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