The Objects of Credence

The Objects of Credence
Author: Anna Mahtani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2024-01-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198847890

The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

Accuracy and the Laws of Credence

Accuracy and the Laws of Credence
Author: Richard Pettigrew
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191047252

Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief). The main principles that he justifies are the central tenets of Bayesian epistemology, though many other related principles are discussed along the way. These are: Probabilism, the claims that credences should obey the laws of probability; the Principal Principle, which says how credences in hypotheses about the objective chances should relate to credences in other propositions; the Principle of Indifference, which says that, in the absence of evidence, we should distribute our credences equally over all possibilities we entertain; and Conditionalization, the Bayesian account of how we should plan to respond when we receive new evidence. Ultimately, then, this book is a study in the foundations of Bayesianism. To justify these principles, Pettigrew looks to decision theory. He treats an agent's credences as if they were a choice she makes between different options, gives an account of the purely epistemic utility enjoyed by different sets of credences, and then appeals to the principles of decision theory to show that, when epistemic utility is measured in this way, the credences that violate the principles listed above are ruled out as irrational. The account of epistemic utility set out here is the veritist's: the sole fundamental source of epistemic utility for credences is their accuracy. Thus, Pettigrew conducts an investigation in the version of Iepistemic utility theory known as accuracy-first epistemology. The book can also be read as an extended reply on behalf of the veritist to the evidentialist's objection that veritism cannot account for certain evidential principles of credal rationality, such as the Principal Principle, the Principle of Indifference, and Conditionalization.

Beyond Chance and Credence

Beyond Chance and Credence
Author: Wayne C. Myrvold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198865090

Beyond Chance and Credence introduces a new way of thinking of probabilities in science that combines physical and epistemic considerations. Myrvold shows that conceiving of probabilities in this way solves puzzles associated with the use of probability and statistical mechanics.

The Sacristy

The Sacristy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1871
Genre: Christian art and symbolism
ISBN:

Strategies in Markets for Experience and Credence Goods

Strategies in Markets for Experience and Credence Goods
Author: Men-Andri Benz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3835095803

The quality and characteristics of industrial and consumption goods are often not revealed until after consumption. However, the decision to buy these products must be made before buying. Many strategies and instruments for signalling and screening have been developed in the economic world in order to overcome potential market failure due to insufficient quality detection. In many situations, efficient incentives and quality revelation are given to the market players by contracts that structure the process and payments of the transaction.

1279-1288

1279-1288
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1902
Genre: Close writs
ISBN: