
Published online:
18 August 2022
Published in print:
11 August 2022
Online ISBN:
9780191954900
Print ISBN:
9780192864352
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Chapter
11 Priors that Allow You to Learn Inductively
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175–182
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Published:August 2022
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Pettigrew, Richard, 'Priors that Allow You to Learn Inductively', Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (Oxford , 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Aug. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864352.003.0011, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
In this chapter, I consider an objection that is inspired by a worry that Wayne Myrvold (2019) raised to my earlier work on epistemic risk. This notes that our account permits priors, such as the uniform prior, that do not allow you to learn from experience in the ways we think you should. In the end, I think these priors, and the inductive scepticism they embody, must be permitted, however little we like the consequences of adopting them. But, unlike in my earlier work, they are not now mandated, which was the central focus of Myrvold's original objection.
Keywords:
Objective Bayesian, inductive learning, Principal Principle, Bayesianism, credences, uniform prior
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Metaphysics
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Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality. Richard Pettigrew, Oxford University Press.© Richard Pettigrew 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192864352.003.0011
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