Listen "Ep 198: Bayesianism"
Episode Synopsis
Everything and more one might ever want to know about the topic...that other epistemology people often talk about. The central project is to distinguish between 4 "species" of what is often called "Bayesianism"
1. Bayes' Theorem.
2. Bayesian Statistics.
3. Bayesian Reasoning
4. Bayesian Epistemology.
Actual timestampes and chapters are:
00:00 - Introduction to this podcast
02:55 Epistemology
11:30 Substrate Independence
12:30 Inexplicit Knowledge/Knowledge without a knower
21:30 Explanatory Universality and Supernaturalism
24:30 When we lack good explanations
29:00 Rational Decision Theory
33:39: Bayes’ Theorem
41:40 Bayesian Statistics
1:07:50 Bayesian Reasoning
1:16:00 Bayesian “Epistemology”
1:20:13: Quick Recap
1:20:49 A question from Stephen Mix
1:21:50 “Confidence” in epistemology
1:26:13 Measurement and Uncertainty
1:31:50 Confidence and experimental replication
Join the conversation https://getairchat.com/s/p3ql7kNB
1. Bayes' Theorem.
2. Bayesian Statistics.
3. Bayesian Reasoning
4. Bayesian Epistemology.
Actual timestampes and chapters are:
00:00 - Introduction to this podcast
02:55 Epistemology
11:30 Substrate Independence
12:30 Inexplicit Knowledge/Knowledge without a knower
21:30 Explanatory Universality and Supernaturalism
24:30 When we lack good explanations
29:00 Rational Decision Theory
33:39: Bayes’ Theorem
41:40 Bayesian Statistics
1:07:50 Bayesian Reasoning
1:16:00 Bayesian “Epistemology”
1:20:13: Quick Recap
1:20:49 A question from Stephen Mix
1:21:50 “Confidence” in epistemology
1:26:13 Measurement and Uncertainty
1:31:50 Confidence and experimental replication
Join the conversation https://getairchat.com/s/p3ql7kNB
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