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The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Pandemics: A Bayesian Model
How to allocate scarce resources in pandemics is still a challenging issue. Several proposals are plenty of subjective criteria, based upon...
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Strategic manipulation in Bayesian dialogues
In a Bayesian dialogue two individuals report their Bayesian updated belief about a certain event back and forth, at each step taking into account...
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A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies
The debates between Bayesian, frequentist, and other methodologies of statistics have tended to focus on conceptual justifications, sociological...
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Quantum Bayesian Decision-Making
As a compact representation of joint probability distributions over a dependence graph of random variables, and a tool for modelling and reasoning in...
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Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again
Chenwei Nie ([
22 ]) argues against a Maherian one-factor approach to explaining delusion. We argue that his objections fail. They are largely based on... -
A Bayesian analysis of debunking arguments in ethics
Debunking arguments in ethics contend that our moral beliefs have dubious evolutionary, cultural, or psychological origins—hence concluding that we...
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Experimental Philosophy and the Incentivisation Challenge: a Proposed Application of the Bayesian Truth Serum
A key challenge in experimental social science research is the incentivisation of subjects such that they take the tasks presented to them seriously...
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Game theory and partner representation in joint action: toward a computational theory of joint agency
The sense of agency – the subjective feeling of being in control of our own actions – is one central aspect of the phenomenology of action....
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Theory Testing in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics
The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration achieved the first ‘direct detection’ of gravitational waves in 2015, opening a new “window” for observing the universe....
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Betting on Conspiracy: A Decision Theoretic Account of the Rationality of Conspiracy Theory Belief
The question of the rationality of conspiratorial belief divides philosophers into mainly two camps. The particularists believe that each conspiracy...
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Perceptual justification in the Bayesian brain: a foundherentist account
In this paper, I use the predictive processing (PP) theory of perception to tackle the question of how perceptual states can be rationally involved...
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Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory
We analyse the issue of using prior information in frequentist statistical inference. For that purpose, we scrutinise different kinds of sampling...
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No free theory choice from machine learning
Ravit Dotan argues that a No Free Lunch theorem (NFL) from machine learning shows epistemic values are insufficient for deciding the truth of...
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Debunking interface theory: why Hoffman’s skepticism (really) is self-defeating
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and others have recently advanced an evolutionary debunking argument aimed at our perceptual beliefs in ordinary...
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The Making of Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-dialectical View
In ‘The making of argumentation theory’ van Eemeren and van Haaften describe the contributions made to the five components of a full-fledged research...
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Theory of Mind in Artificial Intelligence Applications
Theory of Mind refers to the ability to understand and predict other people’s thoughts, emotions, and intentions, and is essential for successful...
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The Social Machine: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approaches to Theory of Mind
The ability to infer cognitive states is essential for the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into society. This chapter aims to present...
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Bayesian Belief Revision Based on Agent’s Criteria
In the literature of belief revision, it is widely accepted that: there is only one revision phase in belief revision which is well characterized by...