Putting on the Garber style? Better not

Colin Howson

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Abstract: This article argues that not only are there serious internal difficulties with both Garber’s and later ‘Garber-style’ solutions of the old-evidence problem, including a recent proposal of Hartmann and Fitelson, but Garber-style approaches in general cannot solve the problem. It also follows the earlier lead of Rosenkrantz in pointing out that, despite the appearance to the contrary which inspired Garber’s nonclassical development of the Bayesian theory, there is a straightforward, classically Bayesian, solution.

JEL-codes: C1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-01
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Published in Philosophy of Science, 1, October, 2017, 84(4), pp. 659-676. ISSN: 0031-8248

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