Remarks on Ángel Pinillos’s Why We Doubt
In these brief remarks, I describe the author’s Bayesian explication of the narrow function of the meta-cognitive, heuristic algorithm (pbs) that is at the heart of his psychological explanation of why we entertain skeptical doubts. I provide some critical remarks, and an alternative Bayesian approa...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Jahr: 2024, Band: 14, Heft: 4, Seiten: 274-281 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Heuristics
B Bayesianism B Skepticism B Doubt |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In these brief remarks, I describe the author’s Bayesian explication of the narrow function of the meta-cognitive, heuristic algorithm (pbs) that is at the heart of his psychological explanation of why we entertain skeptical doubts. I provide some critical remarks, and an alternative Bayesian approach that is (to my mind) somewhat more elegant than the author’s. |
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| ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-bja10079 |
