Contrastive Confirmation: Some Competing Accounts

Chandler, Jake (2013): Contrastive Confirmation: Some Competing Accounts. In: Synthese, Vol. 190, No. 1: pp. 129-138

Abstract

I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called ‘Law of Likelihood’ is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Postprint
• Keywords: Law of Likelihood; Contrastive confirmation; Bayesianism; Probability
• Faculties: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP); Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy
• ISSN: 0039-7857
• Language: English