The Bayesian and the realist : friends or foes?

The main purpose of my thesis is to bring together two seemingly unrelated topics in the philosophy of science and extract the philosophical consequences of this exercise. The first topic is Bayesianism - a well-developed, and popular, probabilistic theory of confirmation. The second topic is Scient...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farmakis, Eleftherios
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.645730