Bayes or Bust?: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory

by John Earman

Book Overview

Bayes or Bust? provides the first balanced treatment of the complex set of issues involved in this nagging conundrum in the philosophy of science.

There is currently no viable alternative to the Bayesian analysis of scientific inference, yet the available versions of Bayesianism fail to do justice to several aspects of the testing and confirmation of scientific hypotheses. Bayes or Bust? provides the first balanced treatment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262519003
• ISBN13: 9780262519007
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher