Does information inform confirmation?

作者：Howson Colin^*

来源：Synthese, 2016, 193(7): 2307-2321.

DOI：10.1007/s11229-015-0918-7

• Confirmation
• Information
• Explication
• Consequences

In a recent survey of the literature on the relation between information and confirmation, Crupi and Tentori (Stud Hist Philos Sci 47:81-90, 2014) claim that the former is a fruitful source of insight into the latter, with two well-known measures of confirmation being definable purely information-theoretically. I argue that of the two explicata of semantic information (due originally to Bar Hillel and Carnap) which are considered by the authors, the one generating a popular Bayesian confirmation measure is a defective measure of information, while the other, although an admissible measure of information, generates a defective measure of confirmation. Some results are proved about the representation of measures on consequence-classes.

• 出版日期2016-7