Bayes and bust: Simplicity as a problem for a probabilist's approach to confirmation
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3):399-424 (1995)
| Abstract | The central problem with Bayesian philosophy of science is that it cannot take account of the relevance of simplicity and unification to confirmation, induction, and scientific inference. The standard Bayesian folklore about factoring simplicity into the priors, and convergence theorems as a way of grounding their objectivity are some of the myths that Earman's book does not address adequately. 1Review of John Earman: Bayes or Bust?, Cambridge, MA. MIT Press, 1992, £33.75cloth. | |||||||||
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