scholarly journals Naturalness as a Constraint on Priors

Mind ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 129 (513) ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Bradley

Abstract Many epistemological problems can be solved by the objective Bayesian view that there are rationality constraints on priors, that is, inductive probabilities. But attempts to work out these constraints have run into such serious problems that many have rejected objective Bayesianism altogether. I argue that the epistemologist should borrow the metaphysician’s concept of naturalness and assign higher priors to more natural hypotheses.

Entropy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 2459-2543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Landes ◽  
Jon Williamson

Analysis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 832-843
Author(s):  
P. M. Ainsworth

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-258
Author(s):  
Hykel Hosni

Metascience ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell P. Rowbottom

Entropy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 3528-3591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Landes ◽  
Jon Williamson

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-351
Author(s):  
Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz

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