Bayesian epistemology
By: Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann.
Contributors: Hartmann, Stephan, Dr.
Publisher: Clarendon; Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Reasoning -- Mathematical models; Bayesian statistical decision theory
Description: Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from many sources - our senses, witnesses, scientific instruments - and assess whether to believe it. The authors provide a systematic Bayesian account of these features of reasoning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-156) and index.