This chapter explores the topic of imprecise probabilities (IP) as it relates to model
validation. IP is a family of formal methods that aim to provide a better representation of …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

The topic of belief has been neglected in the natural sciences for a long period of time.
Recent neuroscience research in non-human primates and humans, however, has shown …

Some naturalistic philosophers of mind subscribing to the predictive processing theory of
mind have adopted a realist attitude towards the results of Bayesian cognitive science. In …

Religion's neural underpinnings have long been a topic of speculation and debate, but an
emerging neuroscience of religion is beginning to clarify which regions of the brain integrate …

The context-sensitivity of cognition has been demonstrated across a wide range of cognitive
functions such as perception, memory, judgement and decision making. A related …

In The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition, Rudolf Schuessler portrays
scholastic approaches to a qualified disagreement of opinions. The book outlines how …

Philosophers commonly say that beliefs come in degrees (or that beliefs are graded or that
there are partial beliefs). Drawing from the literature, I make precise three arguments for this …

Ranking theory is a formal epistemology that has been developed in over 600 pages in S
pohn's recent book The Laws of Belief, which aims to provide a normative account of the …

Foundational work in game theory aims at making explicit the assumptions that underlie the
basic concepts of the discipline. Non-cooperative game theory is the study of individual …