Remarks on Ángel Pinillos’s Why We Doubt

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 14 (4):274-281 (2024)
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In these brief remarks, I describe the author’s Bayesian explication of the narrow function of the meta-cognitive, heuristic algorithm (pbs) that is at the heart of his psychological explanation of why we entertain skeptical doubts. I provide some critical remarks, and an alternative Bayesian approach that is (to my mind) somewhat more elegant than the author’s.

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