<div dir="ltr">Speaker: Radin Dardashti (MCMP)<br>Thursday 4th Dec. 2014<br>Location: Ludwigstr. 31 room 021<br>Time: 12.15 - 13.45<br><br>Title: The No Alternative Argument and the Problem of Establishing Non-empirical Evidence<br><br>Abstract: In a <a href="http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/26/bjps.axt045.abstract">recent paper</a> Dawid, Hartmann and Sprenger have proven within a Bayesian framework the following rough statement: the fact of knowing that there is no alternative theory to one's theory, at a given time and despite considerable effort, confirms the theory. The fact that there are no alternatives to one's theory is considered as non-empirical evidence. The aim of this paper is to analyse how one can establish non-empirical evidence of this kind and its applicability to theories  which are currently empirically inaccessible.  <br><br>I will consider two, as I argue, related problems to establish non-empirical evidence, namely the problem of theory individuation and the problem-determination problem and discuss two possible conclusions one can draw<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">______________________________</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">_________________</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">philphysmunich mailing list</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:philphysmunich@lists.lrz.de">philphysmunich@lists.lrz.de</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/philphysmunich" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/<u></u>listinfo/philphysmunich</a><br></div>