Contrastive Confirmation: Some Competing Accounts

Chandler, Jake (2013): Contrastive Confirmation: Some Competing Accounts. In: Synthese, Bd. 190, Nr. 1: S. 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.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: Law of Likelihood; Contrastive confirmation; Bayesianism; Probability
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) ; Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Science
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
• ISSN: 0039-7857
• Sprache: Englisch