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PIRSA:18040121

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https://pirsa.org/18040121

Argumentation, Conditionals, and the Use of Information Theoretic Concepts in Bayesianism

Hartmann, S. (2018). Argumentation, Conditionals, and the Use of Information Theoretic Concepts in Bayesianism. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/18040121

Stephan Hartmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Talk numberPIRSA:18040121
DOI10.48660/18040121
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In this talk, I show how information theoretic concepts can be used to extend the scope of traditional Bayesianism. I will focus on the learning of indicative conditionals (“If A, then B”) and a Bayesian account of argumentation. We will see that there are also interesting connections to research done in the psychology of reasoning. The talk is partly based on the paper “Bayesian Argumentation and the Value of Logical Validity” (with Ben Eva, forthcoming in Psychological Review, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14491/).