The Art of Learning

Autor: Jason Konek
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7 ISBN: 0192868977
Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192868978.003.0004
Popis: Confirmational holism is at odds with Jeffrey conditioning—the orthodox Bayesian policy for accommodating uncertain learning experiences. Two of the great insights of holist epistemology are that (i) the effects of experience ought to be mediated by one’s background beliefs, and (ii) the support provided by one’s learning experience can and often is undercut by subsequent learning. Jeffrey conditioning fails to vindicate either of these insights. My aim is to describe and defend a new updating policy that does better. In addition to showing that this new policy is more holism-friendly than Jeffrey conditioning, I will also show that it has an accuracy-centred justification.
Databáze: OpenAIRE