Michael G. Titelbaum (Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in

Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 1

Introducing Credences

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Produktbeschreibung

Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism. This volume introduces degrees of belief as a concept in epistemology and the rules for updating degrees of belief derived from Bayesian principles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780198707615
• ISBN-10: 0198707614
• Artikelnr.: 63222656

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Titelbaum is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After majoring in philosophy at Harvard, he had a brief career as a high school teacher. He then earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Australian National University. He began at UW-Madison in 2009, and was Chair of the Department of Philosophy 2019-2022.

Inhaltsangabe

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Preface
I Our Subject
1: Beliefs and Degrees of Belief
II The Bayesian Formalism
2: Probability Distributions
3: Conditional Credences
4: Updating by Conditionalization
5: Further Rational Constraints