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Cognitive-Constructivism, Quine, Dogmas of Empiricism, and Münchhausen’s Trilemma

2015; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-12454-4_5

2194-1017

Julio Michael Stern,

Philosophy and Theoretical Science

The Bayesian research group at University of São Paulo has been exploring a specific version of cognitive constructivism (Cog-Con) that has, among its most salient features, a distinctive objective character. Cog-Con is supported by a specially designed measure of statistical significance, namely, ${\mbox{ev}}(H{\vert} X)$ —the Bayesian epistemic value of sharp hypotheses H, given the observed data X. This article explores possible parallels or contrasts between Cog-Con and the epistemological framework developed by the philosopher Willard van Orman Quine.