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How to learn from theory-dependent evidence; or commutativity and holism: A solution for conditionalizers
Gallow, J. Dmitri
Gallow, J. Dmitri
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Weisberg ([2009]) provides an argument that neither conditionalization nor Jeffrey conditionalization is capable of accommodating the holist’s claim that beliefs acquired directly from experience can suffer undercutting defeat. I diagnose this failure as stemming from the fact that neither conditionalization nor Jeffrey conditionalization give any advice about how to rationally respond to theory-dependent evidence, and I propose a novel updating procedure that does tell us how to respond to evidence like this. This holistic updating rule yields conditionalization as a special case in which our evidence is entirely theory independent.
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2014
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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65
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3
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493-519
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