HPS 2682
Phil 2690
Spring 2017
Theories of Confirmation
Theories of Confirmation Name:__________________

Credit:____ Audit:____

Ballot

Principal Accounts of Induction

__ Inductive Generalization

__ Hypothetical Induction

__ Exclusionary accounts. Error statistical methods.

__ Abduction: Inference to the best explanation

__ Inference to a common cause

__ Simplicity and the Akaike criterion

__ Reliabilism

__ Probabilistist Induction

__ A Bayes' Primer

__ Bayesian Success Stories

__ Subjective versus Objective Bayesianism

__ Material Theory of Induction

__ The Theory Introduced

__ Case Studies of Applications

__ Bayesian Topics

__ Arguments for Bayesianism

__ Savage's decision theoretic justification of Bayesianism

__ Scoring Rule Justifications of Bayesianism

__ Function Theoretic Representation Theorems

__ Likelihoodism

__ Measures of Support

__ Imprecise Probabilities

__ Representations of Ignorance/Completely Neutral Support

__ Imprecise Probabilities

__ Dilation

 

__ Gotcha's in Probability

__ The exchange paradox

__ The doomsday argument, Sleeping beauty (and self locating beliefs)

__ Case Studies in Evidence

__ Newton's argument for Universal Gravitation

__ Phlogiston versus Oxygen

__ Evolutionary Theory

__ Quantum Discontinuity

__ The Electron

__ Evidence for Climate Change

Your Suggestions:_________________________

__ Complaints about Bayesianism

__ Troublesome Cases

__ Incompleteness of Calculi of Inductive Inference

__ Problems of Induction

__ The Problem of Induction (Hume's Problem)

__ Grue

__ Underdetermination

__ Hempel's Raven

__ Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes

More Topics

__ Ranking theory

__ The Problem of Old Evidence

Your Suggestions:________________________________