Confirmation and Evidence
dc.contributor.advisor | Bartels, Andreas | |
dc.contributor.author | Sprenger, Jan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-11T16:01:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-11T16:01:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/3287 | |
dc.description.abstract | The question how experience acts on our beliefs and how beliefs are changed in the light of experience is one of the oldest and most controversial questions in philosophy in general and epistemology in particular. Philosophy of science has replaced this question by the more specific enquiry how results of experiments act on scientific hypotheses and theories. Why do we maintain some theories while discarding others? Two general questions emerge: First, what is our reason to accept the justifying power of experience and more specifically, scientific experiments? Second, how can the relationship between theory and evidence be described and under which circumstances is a scientific theory confirmed by a piece of evidence? The book focuses on the second question, on explicating the relationship between theory and evidence and capturing the structure of a valid inductive argument. Special attention is paid to statistical applications that are prevalent in modern empirical science. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Induktion | |
dc.subject | Bestätigung | |
dc.subject | Statistik | |
dc.subject | Wissenschaftstheorie | |
dc.subject | Evidenz | |
dc.subject | Wahrscheinlichkeit | |
dc.subject | Glaubensgrade | |
dc.subject | philosophy of science | |
dc.subject | statistics | |
dc.subject | induction | |
dc.subject | probability | |
dc.subject | belief revision | |
dc.subject.ddc | 100 Philosophie | |
dc.title | Confirmation and Evidence | |
dc.type | Dissertation oder Habilitation | |
dc.publisher.name | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.identifier.urn | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-15062 | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Erstveröffentlichung | |
ulbbnediss.affiliation.name | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
ulbbnediss.affiliation.location | Bonn | |
ulbbnediss.thesis.level | Dissertation | |
ulbbnediss.dissID | 1506 | |
ulbbnediss.date.accepted | 03.07.2008 | |
ulbbnediss.fakultaet | Philosophische Fakultät | |
dc.contributor.coReferee | Stuhlmann-Laeisz, Rainer |
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