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    Garber — Carmelics
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    Garber

    contemporaryFormal Epistemology

    Garber is a contemporary philosopher working in formal epistemology and the philosophy of probability. Their work engages with principles governing rational belief distribution under uncertainty, particularly examining the comparative merits and scope of entropy-based and classical probabilistic principles.

    Notable Achievements

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    Argued for the principle of maximum entropy as a more cautious and broadly applicable successor to the Principle of Indifference

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    Contributed to debates on rational prior probability assignment under uncertainty

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    Engaged with the foundations of Bayesian and objective probability theory

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Skepticism

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

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