The ubiquitous defeaters: no admissibility troubles for Bayesian accounts of direct inference

Abstract

In this paper we dispel the supposed ``admissibility troubles'' for Bayesian accounts of direct inference proposed by Wallmann and Hawthorne, which concern the existence of surprising, unintuitive defeaters even for mundane cases of direct inference. We show that if one follows the majority of authors in the field in using classical probability spaces unimbued with any additional structure, one should expect similar phenomena to arise and should consider them unproblematic in themselves: defeaters abound! We then show that the framework of Higher Probability Spaces allows the natural modelling of the discussed cases which produces no troubles of this kind.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,636

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-08-18

Downloads
37 (#614,575)

6 months
6 (#879,768)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Zalan Gyenis
Jagiellonian University
Leszek Wroński
Jagiellonian University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Evidence.Thomas Kelly - 2006 - Philosophy Compass.
Direct inference.Isaac Levi - 1977 - Journal of Philosophy 74 (1):5-29.

View all 10 references / Add more references