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Journal Article Analysis United Kingdom · October 1, 2024 There is a theorem that shows that it is impossible for an algorithm to jointly satisfy the statistical fairness criteria of Calibration and Equalized Odds non-trivially. But what about the recently advocated alternative to Calibration, Base Rate Tracking? ... Full text Cite

Comparative Learning

Journal Article Philosophy of Science · January 2024 AbstractThis article concerns the diachronic rationality norms for comparative confidence judgments, that is, judgments of the form “I am at least as confident in Full text Cite

Individual Fairness, Base Rate Tracking and the Lipschitz Condition

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH · 2024 Cite

Comparative opinion loss

Journal Article Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · November 1, 2023 It is a consequence of the theory of imprecise credences that there exist situations in which rational agents inevitably become less opinionated toward some propositions as they gather more evidence. The fact that an agent's imprecise credal state can dila ... Full text Cite

Anti-reductionist Interventionism

Journal Article British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · March 1, 2023 Kim’s causal exclusion argument purports to demonstrate that the non-reductive physicalist must treat mental properties (and macro-level properties in general) as causally inert. A number of authors have attempted to resist Kim’s conclusion by utilizing th ... Full text Cite

How a Minimal Learning Agent can Infer the Existence of Unobserved Variables in a Complex Environment.

Journal Article Minds and machines · January 2023 According to a mainstream position in contemporary cognitive science and philosophy, the use of abstract compositional concepts is amongst the most characteristic indicators of meaningful deliberative thought in an organism or agent. In this article, we sh ... Full text Cite

Four Approaches to Supposition

Journal Article Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy · December 28, 2022 Suppositions can be introduced in either the indicative or subjunctive mood. There are also two types of judgments that may be initiated by suppositions of either sort: qualitative (binary) judgments and quantitative (numerical) ones. The former ar ... Full text Cite

Algorithmic Fairness and Base Rate Tracking

Journal Article Philosophy & Public Affairs · March 2022 Full text Cite

Chance Covariance and the Mind Body Problem

Journal Article Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind · January 1, 2022 Most agree that mental properties depend in some way on physical properties. While physicalists describe this dependence in terms of deterministic synchronic relations like identity or supervenience, some dualists prefer to think of it in terms of indeterm ... Full text Link to item Cite

The logic of partial supposition

Journal Article Analysis · October 4, 2021 AbstractAccording to orthodoxy, there are two basic moods of supposition: indicative and subjunctive. The most popular formalizations of the corresponding norms of suppositional judgement are given by Bayesian conditionaliz ... Full text Cite

A BRIDGE BETWEEN Q-WORLDS

Journal Article The Review of Symbolic Logic · June 2021 AbstractQuantum set theory (QST) and topos quantum theory (TQT) are two long running projects in the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics (QM) that share a great deal of conceptual and technical affinity. Most pert ... Full text Cite

The Logic of Conditional Belief

Journal Article The Philosophical Quarterly · September 17, 2020 AbstractThe logic of indicative conditionals remains the topic of deep and intractable philosophical disagreement. I show that two influential epistemic norms—the Lockean theory of belief and the Ramsey test for conditional ... Full text Cite

On the Origins of Old Evidence

Journal Article Australasian Journal of Philosophy · July 2, 2020 Full text Cite

The similarity of causal structure

Journal Article Philosophy of Science · December 1, 2019 Whether y obtains under the counterfactual supposition that x is thought to depend on whether y obtains in the most similar world(s) in which x obtains. Graphical causal models have proved useful in developing a principled notion of similarity between worl ... Full text Cite

Causal Explanatory Power

Journal Article British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · December 1, 2019 Schupbach and Sprenger ([2011]) introduce a novel probabilistic approach to measuring the explanatory power that a given explanans exerts over a corresponding explanandum. Though we are sympathetic to their general approach, we argue that it does not (with ... Full text Cite

Principles of Indifference

Journal Article The Journal of Philosophy · 2019 The principle of indifference (PI) states that in the absence of any relevant evidence, a rational agent will distribute their credence equally among all the possible outcomes under consideration. Despite its intuitive plausibility, PI famously fal ... Full text Cite

Bayesian argumentation and the value of logical validity.

Journal Article Psychological Review · October 2018 Full text Cite