Rationality, Theory Acceptance and Decision Theory

Following Kuhn's main thesis according to which theory revision and acceptance is always paradigm relative, I propose to outline some possible consequences of such a view. First, asking the question in what sense Bayesian decision theory could serve as the appropriate (normative) theory of rati...

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Main Author: J. Nicolas Kaufmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 1998-06-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/18804/17386