Testimony as evidence: more problems for linear pooling

DOI10.1007/S10992-012-9227-5MaRDI QIDQ1929758zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katie Steele

Publication date 9 January 2013

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-012-9227-5

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian belief changelinear poolingtestimony

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)

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• Agreeing to disagree
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• Reaching a consensus
• Updating Subjective Probability

Cited in

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• A pragmatic argument against equal weighting
• Testimony, credibility, and explanatory coherence
• SUPPORT FOR GEOMETRIC POOLING
• Finding stubbles and some other puzzles concerning the credences of others
• Expert deference as a belief revision schema
• On understanding and testimony
• Learning from others: conditioning versus averaging
• Weighted averaging, Jeffrey conditioning and invariance
• All agreed: Aumann meets DeGroot
• Coherent combination of experts' opinions: another impossibility result

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