Speaker: Radin Dardashti (MCMP)
Thursday 4th Dec. 2014
Location: Ludwigstr. 31 room 021
Time: 12.15 - 13.45

Title: The No Alternative Argument and the Problem of Establishing Non-empirical Evidence

Abstract: In a recent paper 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.  

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


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