Justifying the principle of indifference

DOI10.1007/S13194-018-0201-0zbMATH Open1428.62033OpenAlexW2790965298WikidataQ92913371 ScholiaQ92913371MaRDI QIDQ2289710FDOQ2289710

Authors: Jon Williamson 

Publication date: 24 January 2020

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

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesianismaccuracyprinciple of indifferenceepistemic consequentialism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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• Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics
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