Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 (3):663-684 (2022)
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Abstract

There is widespread excitement in the literature about the method of arbitrary functions: many take it to show that it is from the dynamics of systems that the objectivity of probabilities emerge. In this paper, I differentiate three ways in which a probability function might be objective, and I argue that the method of arbitrary functions cannot help us show that dynamics objectivise probabilities in any of these senses.

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Chloé de Canson
University of Groningen

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