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New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

Released Tuesday, 21st July 2015
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New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles

Tuesday, 21st July 2015
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Greg Gandenberger (Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 April, 2015) titled "New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles". Abstract: The Likelihood Principle is important because the frequentist statistical methods that are most commonly used in science violate it, while rival likelihoodist and Bayesian methods do not. It is supported by a variety of arguments, including several proofs from intuitively plausible axioms. It also faces many objections, including several purported counterexamples. In this talk, I provide new responses to four purported counterexamples to the Likelihood Principle and its near-corollary the Law of Likelihood that are not adequately addressed in the existing literature. I first respond to examples due to Fitelson and Titelbaum that I argue are adequately addressed by restricting the Law of Likelihood to mutually exclusive hypotheses. I then respond to two counterexamples from the statistical literature. My responses to these latter examples are novel in that they do not appeal to prior probabilities, which is important for attempts to use the Likelihood Principle to provide an argument for Bayesian approaches that does presuppose the permissibility of using prior probabilities in science.
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MCMP – Epistemology

Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists.The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce philosophy to mathematics or to natural science in any sense; rather mathematics is applied in order to derive philosophical conclusions from philosophical assumptions, just as in physics mathematical methods are used to derive physical predictions from physical laws.Nor is the idea of mathematical philosophy to dismiss any of the ancient questions of philosophy as irrelevant or senseless: although modern mathematical philosophy owes a lot to the heritage of the Vienna and Berlin Circles of Logical Empiricism, unlike the Logical Empiricists most mathematical philosophers today are driven by the same traditional questions about truth, knowledge, rationality, the nature of objects, morality, and the like, which were driving the classical philosophers, and no area of traditional philosophy is taken to be intrinsically misguided or confused anymore. It is just that some of the traditional questions of philosophy can be made much clearer and much more precise in logical-mathematical terms, for some of these questions answers can be given by means of mathematical proofs or models, and on this basis new and more concrete philosophical questions emerge. This may then lead to philosophical progress, and ultimately that is the goal of the Center.

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