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Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction
Schurz (
2019 , ch. 4) argues that probabilistic accounts of induction fail. In particular, he criticises probabilistic accounts of induction that...
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Infinite frequency principles of direct inference
According to an infinite frequency principle, it is rational, under certain conditions, to set your credence in an outcome to the limiting frequency...
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Monotonic Inference with Unscoped Episodic Logical Forms: From Principles to System
We describe the foundations and the systematization of natural logic-like monotonic inference using unscoped episodic logical forms (ULFs) that as...
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The Validity of Inference and Argument
It has been common in contemporary logic and philosophy of logic to identify the validity of an inference with its conclusion being a (logical)...
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Heuristics Facilitates the Evolution of Transitive Inference and Social Hierarchy in a Large Group
Transitive inference (TI) refers to social cognition that facilitates the discernment of unknown relationships between individuals using known...
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Capturing the Varieties of Natural Language Inference: A Systematic Survey of Existing Datasets and Two Novel Benchmarks
Transformer-based Pre-Trained Language Models currently dominate the field of Natural Language Inference (NLI). We first survey existing NLI...
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Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology
Active inference offers a unified theory of perception, learning, and decision-making at computational and neural levels of description. In this...
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Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference
Reverse inference is a crucial inferential strategy used in cognitive neuroscience to derive conclusions about the engagement of cognitive processes...
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Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling
Frequentist inference typically is described in terms of hypothetical repeated sampling but there are advantages to an interpretation that uses a...
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Eyewitness evaluation through inference to the best explanation
Eyewitness testimony is both an important and a notoriously unreliable type of criminal evidence. How should investigators, lawyers and...
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The Interdependence Between the Concepts of Valid Inference and Proof Revisited
By a valid inference is here understood an inference that succeeds in its aim to justify its conclusion given that its premisses are already...
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A Historical Perspective in Support of Direct Realism
In this paper I argue that Direct realism is less prone to internal incoherence as a theory of knowledge than alternative theories. The theory of...
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The old evidence problem and the inference to the best explanation
The Problem of Old Evidence (POE) states that Bayesian confirmation theory cannot explain why a theory H can be confirmed by a piece of evidence E...
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The Inference Objection to Evidence Cases
Chastain (
1975 ) and Sawyer (2012 ), among others, claim that direct cognitive relations can be initiated in evidence cases. Direct cognitive relations ... -
Comment on “Does direct farm marketing fulfill its promises? analyzing job satisfaction among direct‑market farmers in Canada”
This paper discusses some aspects of the article by Azima and Mundler (2022). It is argued that the relationship between work and social satisfaction...
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Active Inference as a Computational Framework for Consciousness
Recently, the mechanistic framework of active inference has been put forward as a principled foundation to develop an overarching theory of...
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The epistemic consequences of pragmatic value-laden scientific inference
In this work, we explore the epistemic import of the value-ladenness of Neyman-Pearson’s Theory of Testing Hypotheses (N-P) by reconstructing and...
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What Might Interoceptive Inference Reveal about Consciousness?
The mainstream science of consciousness offers a few predominate views of how the brain gives rise to awareness. Chief among these are the...
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Dependency of Inference on Perception and Verbal Testimony
Indian philosophical schools heavily depend upon the means of valid cognition (Pramāṇas) to establish the findings of metaphysics and the stand of...
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Critical Direct Realism? New Realism, Roy Wood Sellars, and Wilfrid Sellars
The overall contention of this paper, conducted through an examination of the idea of a ‘critical direct realism’ as this was developed across the...