Objective Bayesianism, Bayesian conditionalisation and voluntarism

DOI10.1007/s11229-009-9515-yzbMath1233.03021OpenAlexW2114603490MaRDI QIDQ542115

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

maximum entropyformal epistemologyconditionalisationmaxentobjective BayesianismBayesian epistemology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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