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A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens (2020)
Journal Article
Peden, W. (2020). A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 51(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09485-3

In the Paradox of the Ravens, a set of otherwise intuitive claims about evidence seems to be inconsistent. Most attempts at answering the paradox involve rejecting a member of the set, which seems to require a conflict either with commonsense intuiti... Read More about A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens.

Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments' (2018)
Journal Article
Peden, W. (2018). Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments'

Many philosophers argue that Keynes’s concept of the “weight of arguments” is an important aspect of argument appraisal. The weight of an argument is the quantity of relevant evidence cited in the premises. However, this dimension of argumentation do... Read More about Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments'.