Epistemología bayesiana

Autores/as

Michael G. Titelbaum
Marc Jiménez Rolland
Traductor

Palabras clave:

Credibilidades, Restricciones racionales, Axiomas, Fórmula de Proporción, Condicionalización, Condicionalización por Jeffrey, Inferencia directa, Aditividad Contable, Teoría de la confirmación, Teoría de la decisión, Restricciones credales, Argumentos, Teorema de Representación, Libro Holandés, Precisión, Problema de la Omnisciencia Lógica, Problema de la Vieja Evidencia, Pérdida de Memoria y Sensibilidad al Contexto, Convicción

Sinopsis

Este texto es una traducción del capítulo “Precise Credences”, de Michael G. Titelbaum, que se incluye en el Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology (páginas 1 a 55), editado por Richard Pettigrew y Jonathan Weisberg en 2019, bajo el sello de la PhilPapers Foundation. Fue publicado con una Licencia Internacional Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. La presente traducción se publica con autorización del autor y de los editores.

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