Justifying the principle of indifference

DOI10.1007/S13194-018-0201-0MaRDI QIDQ2289710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jon Williamson

Publication date 24 January 2020

Published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0201-0

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesianismaccuracyprinciple of indifferenceepistemic consequentialism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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