Bayesian pseudo-confirmation,use-novelty,and genuine confirmation |
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Authors: | Gerhard Schurz |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie évolutive, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – Bât. Grégor Mendel, 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France;2. Institut d''Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1, France |
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Abstract: | According to the comparative Bayesian concept of confirmation, rationalized versions of creationism come out as empirically confirmed. From a scientific viewpoint, however, they are pseudo-explanations because with their help all kinds of experiences are explainable in an ex-post fashion, by way of ad-hoc fitting of an empirically empty theoretical framework to the given evidence. An alternative concept of confirmation that attempts to capture this intuition is the use novelty (UN) criterion of confirmation. Serious objections have been raised against this criterion. In this paper I suggest solutions to these objections. Based on them, I develop an account of genuine confirmation that unifies the UN-criterion with a refined probabilistic confirmation concept that is explicated in terms of the confirmation of evidence-transcending content parts of the hypothesis. |
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Keywords: | Bayesian confirmation Genuine confirmation Content part Use novelty Creationism Curve fitting |
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