Discovering Maximum Entropy Knowledge

Landes, Jüergen (2024): Discovering Maximum Entropy Knowledge. In: Erkenntnis [Forthcoming]

Abstract

This paper seeks to determine a rational agent’s evidential constraints given her beliefs. Rationality is here construed as adherence to a principle of entropy maximisation. I determine the rational agent’s set of probability efunctions compatible with the evidence, E, given the maximum entropy function and given some constraints on the shape of E. I also consider agents employing a centre of mass approach to form their beliefs rather than entropy maximisation.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• ISSN: 0165-0106
• Bemerkung: online first
• Sprache: Englisch