What's Wrong With Our Theories of Evidence?

This paper reviews all major theories of evidence such as the Bayesian theory, hypothetico-deductivism, satisfaction theories, error-statistics, Achinstein's explanationist theory and Cartwright's argument theory. All these theories fail to take adequate account of the context in which a h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julian Reiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2014-06-01
Series:THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science
Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/10782