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An Epistemic Advantage of Accommodation over PredictionPhilosophers' Imprint. forthcoming.Many philosophers have argued that a hypothesis is better confirmed by some data if the hypothesis was not specifically designed to fit the data. ‘Prediction’, they argue, is superior to ‘accommodation’. Others deny that there is any epistemic advantage to prediction, and conclude that prediction and accommodation are epistemically on a par. This paper argues that there is a respect in which accommodation is superior to prediction. Specifically, the information that the data was accommodated rat…Read more
Cardiff University
PhD, 2000
Durham, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Scientific Practice |
Philosophy of Statistics |
Areas of Interest
Scientific Practice |
Philosophy of Statistics |