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 <http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/26/bjps.axt045.abstract> 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 _______________________________________________ philphysmunich mailing list philphysmunich@lists.lrz.de https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/philphysmunich