Quinean Updates: In Defense of Two Dogmas
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Contributors
Abstract
Quine challenged traditional views of the a priori by appealing to two key premises: that any statement may be held true “come what may” and that no statement is immune to revision in light of new experience. Chalmers has recently developed a seemingly compelling response to each of these claims. The critique is particularly threatening because it seems to rest on the Bayesian premise that upon acquiring evidence E, a rational agent will update her credence in any statement S to equal her prior conditional credence in S given E. We argue that Chalmers’s criticisms misfire. When properly understood, Quine’s two theses are largely consistent with Bayesianism.
Details
Original language | German |
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Pages (from-to) | 57-91 |
Journal | The Journal of Philosophy |
Volume | 115 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2018 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85062261855 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/142234595 |