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102Stage Effects in the Cartesian Theater: A review of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 1. 1994.
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355Bayesian Informal Logic and FallacyInformal Logic 24 (1): 41-70. 2004.Bayesian reasoning has been applied formally to statistical inference, machine learning and analysing scientific method. Here I apply it informally to more common forms of inference, namely natural language arguments. I analyse a variety of traditional fallacies, deductive, inductive and causal, and find more merit in them than is generally acknowledged. Bayesian principles provide a framework for understanding ordinary arguments which is well worth developing
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Bayesian Informal Logic and FallacyInformal Logic 23 (1). 2003.Bayesian reasoning has been applied formally to statistical inference, machine learning and analysing scientific method. Here I apply it informally to more common forms of inference, namely natural language arguments. I analyse a variety of traditional fallacies, deductive, inductive and causal, and find more merit in them than is generally acknowledged. Bayesian principles provide a framework for understanding ordinary arguments which is well worth developing.