Attitudes Toward Epistemic Risk and the Value of Experiments
Several different Bayesian models of epistemic utilities (e.g., Levi 1962, Horwich 1982, Maher 1990, Oddie 1997) have been used to explain why it is rational for scientists to perform experiments. In this paper, I argue that a model--suggested independently by Patrick Maher (1990) and Graham Oddie...
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Springer
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105761 |