Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 2: Arguments, Challenges, Alternatives

Michael G. Titelbaum

ISBN 10: 0192863150 / ISBN 13: 9780192863157

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2022

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2022. Paperback. . . . . .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780192863157

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 2: Arguments, Challenges, Alternatives
• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0192863150
• ISBN-13: 9780192863157
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists' use of Bayesian probability mathematics to represent degrees of belief. Michael G. Titelbaum provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism, enabling the reader both to follow epistemological debates and to see broader implications

Volume 1 begins by motivating the use of degrees of belief in epistemology. It then introduces, explains, and applies the five core Bayesian normative rules: Kolmogorov's three probability axioms, the Ratio Formula for conditional degrees of belief, and Conditionalization for updating attitudes over time. Finally, it discusses further normative rules (such as the Principal Principle, or indifference principles) that have been proposed to supplement or replace the core five.

Volume 2 gives arguments for the five core rules introduced in Volume 1, then considers challenges to Bayesian epistemology. It begins by detailing Bayesianism's successful applications to confirmation and decision theory. Then it describes three types of arguments for Bayesian rules, based on representation theorems, Dutch Books, and accuracy measures. Finally, it takes on objections to the Bayesian approach and alternative formalisms, including the statistical approaches of frequentism and likelihoodism.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael G. Titelbaum is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After majoring in philosophy at Harvard, he had a brief career as a high school teacher. He then earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Australian National University. He began at UW-Madison in 2009, and was Chair of the Department of Philosophy 2019-2022.