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Learning is a Risky Business

Myrvold, Wayne C.

Erkenntnis, 2019-06, Vol.84 (3), p.577-584 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
Learning is a Risky Business
Autor: Myrvold, Wayne C.
Assuntos: Accuracy ; Cognition & reasoning ; Conservatism ; Education ; Epistemology ; Ethics ; Learning ; Logic ; Ontology ; Pettigrew, Richard ; Philosophy ; Principles
É parte de: Erkenntnis, 2019-06, Vol.84 (3), p.577-584
Descrição: Richard Pettigrew has recently advanced a justification of the Principle of Indifference on the basis of a principle that he calls "cognitive conservatism," or "extreme epistemic conservatism." However, the credences based on the Principle of Indifference, as Pettigrew formulates it, violate another desideratum, namely, that learning from experience be possible. If it is accepted that learning from experience should be possible, this provides grounds for rejecting cognitive conservatism. Another set of criteria considered by Pettigrew, which involves a weighted mean of worst-case and best-case accuracy, affords some learning, but not the sort that one would expect. This raises the question of whether accuracy-based considerations can be adapted to justify credence functions that permit induction.
Editor: Dordrecht: Springer
Idioma: Inglês

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