European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (1):39-46 (2011)
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Bayesians regard their solution to the paradox of confirmation as grounds for preferring their theory of confirmation to Hempel’s. They point out that, unlike Hempel, they can at least say that a black raven confirms “All ravens are black” more than a white shoe. However, I argue that this alleged advantage is cancelled out by the fact that Bayesians are equally committed to the view that a white shoe confirms “All non-black things are non-ravens” less than a black raven. In light of this, I reexamine the dialectic between Hempel and the Bayesians
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Keywords | Paradox of confirmation Paradox of the ravens Bayesianism Carl Hempel |
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DOI | 10.1007/s13194-010-0007-1 |
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The Plurality of Bayesian Measures of Confirmation and the Problem of Measure Sensitivity.Branden Fitelson - 1999 - Philosophy of Science 66 (3):378.
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation.Carl A. Hempel - 1983 - In Peter Achinstein (ed.), The Concept of Evidence. Oxford University Press. pp. 1-26.
The White Shoe is a Red Herring.I. J. Good - 1966 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 17 (4):322.
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