HPS 2682
Phil 2690
Spring 2017
Theories of Confirmation
Theories of Confirmation
Credit:
2 points per vote
Audit:
1 point per vote
Results of Ballot
Color Coding:
15 or more votes
10-14 votes
Principal Accounts of Induction
_9_ Inductive Generalization
_11_ Hypothetical Induction
_14_ Exclusionary accounts. Error statistical methods.
_13_ Abduction: Inference to the best explanation
_11_ Inference to a common cause
_15_ Simplicity and the Akaike criterion
_5_ Reliabilism
_11_ Probabilistic Induction
_13_ A Bayes' Primer
_5_ Bayesian Success Stories
_16_ Subjective versus Objective Bayesianism
_16_ Material Theory of Induction
_17_ The Theory Introduced
_16_ Case Studies of Applications
_2_ Bayesian Topics
_11_ Arguments for Bayesianism
_4_ Savage's decision theoretic justification of Bayesianism
_6_ Scoring Rule Justifications of Bayesianism
_10_ Function Theoretic Representation Theorems
_16_ Likelihoodism
_15_ Measures of Support
_5_ Imprecise Probabilities
_6_ Representations of Ignorance/Completely Neutral Support
_10_ Imprecise Probabilities
_2_ Dilation
__ Gotcha's in Probability
__ The exchange paradox
_4_ The doomsday argument, Sleeping beauty (and self locating beliefs)
_12_ Case Studies in Evidence
_20_ Newton's argument for Universal Gravitation
_11_ Phlogiston versus Oxygen
_12_ Evolutionary Theory
_12_ Quantum Discontinuity
_6_ The Electron
_17_ Evidence for Climate Change
Your Suggestions:_________________________
__ Complaints about Bayesianism
_13_ Troublesome Cases
_9_ Incompleteness of Calculi of Inductive Inference
_2_ Problems of Induction
_8_ The Problem of Induction (Hume's Problem)
_5_ Grue
_13_ Underdetermination
_3_ Hempel's Raven
_8_ Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes
More Topics
_3_ Ranking theory
_5_ The Problem of Old Evidence
Your Suggestions:________________________________