SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Objective Bayesian probability is often defined over rather simple domains, e.g., finite event spaces or propositional languages. This paper investigates the extension of objectiv...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The paper argues, that a direct formalization of the way common sense thinks about the numerical identity of enduring entities, requires that traditional predicate logic is develo...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
I will assume here the defenses of epistemic infinitism are adequate and inquire as to the variety standpoints within the view. I will argue that infinitism has three varieties dep...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The traditional account (TA) of first-person thought draws conclusions about this type of thinking from claims made about the first-person pronoun. In this paper I raise a worry fo...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Epistemic naturalism holds that the results or methodologies from the cognitive sciences are relevant to epistemology, and some have maintained that scientific methods are more com...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Axiomatic characterization results in social choice theory are usually compared either regarding the normative plausibility or regarding the logical strength of the axioms involved...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Judgment aggregation problems are language dependent in that they may be framed in different yet equivalent ways. We formalize this dependence via the notion of translation invari...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We consider the problems arising from using sequences of experiments to discover the causal structure among a set of variables, none of whom are known ahead of time to be an "...