The paper analyses arguments that Bayesian personalist models should be normative in the formulation of evidence rules for litigation (Fienberg and Schervish, 1986; Lempert, 1986). Relying on research ...

Cognitive science has increasingly focused on the mechanisms underpinning how humans generate, evaluate and update explanations. Explanatory reasoning—central to learning and inference—involves the ...

For humans and machines, intelligence requires making sense of the world — inferring simple explanations for the mishmosh of information coming in through our senses, discovering regularities and ...

Attias, H. (2003). Planning by probabilistic inference. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Barlow, H. (1961). Possible principles underlying the ...