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A Plea for History and Philosophy of Statistics and Machine Learning
Hanti Lin
The integration of the history and philosophy of statistics was initiated at least by Hacking (1975) and advanced by Hacking (1990), Mayo (1996), and Zabell (2005), but it has not…
The Problem of the Priors, or Posteriors?
Hanti Lin
The problem of the priors is well known: it concerns the challenge of identifying norms that govern one's prior credences. I argue that a key to addressing this problem lies in con…
Scientific Realism vs. Anti-Realism: Toward a Common Ground
Hanti Lin
The debate between scientific realism and anti-realism remains at a stalemate, making reconciliation seem hopeless. Yet, important work remains: exploring a common ground, even if…
Unified Inductive Logic: From Formal Learning to Statistical Inference to Supervised Learning
Hanti Lin
While the traditional conception of inductive logic is Carnapian, I develop a Peircean alternative and use it to unify formal learning theory, statistics, and a significant part of…
Convergence to the Truth
Hanti Lin
This article reviews and develops an epistemological tradition in the philosophy of science, known as convergentism, which holds that inference methods should be assessed based on…