Objective Bayesianism, Bayesian conditionalisation and voluntarism

DOI10.1007/S11229-009-9515-YMaRDI QIDQ542115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jon Williamson

Publication date 8 June 2011

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9515-y

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian epistemologyconditionalisationformal epistemologymaxentmaximum entropyobjective Bayesianism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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