When No Reason For Is A Reason Against

Eva, Benjamin und Hartmann, Stephan (21. November 2017): When No Reason For Is A Reason Against.

Abstract

We provide a Bayesian justification of the idea that, under certain conditions, the absence of an argument in favour of the truth of a hypothesis H constitutes a good argument against the truth of H.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Publikationsform: Preprint
• Keywords: Bayesian Epistemology, Argumentation
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) ; Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Epistemology
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
• Bemerkung: Published in: Analysis, Volume 78, Issue 3, July 2018, Pages 426–431, https://doi-org.emedien.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10.1093/analys/anx160
• Sprache: Englisch