[Taxacom] Symposium: New Applications of Bayesian Inference in Phylogenetic Biology

[J. Kirk Fitzhugh]

Nico,

Could abstracts of the talks from the symposium be made available via 
taxacom? It would be fascinating to see how Bayes theorem, which is a 
strictly inductive procedure, will be justified as a means for inferring 
explanatory (i.e. phylogenetic) hypotheses, which is strictly abductive. 
The theorem is only capable of addressing changes in hypothesis belief 
contingent on test evidence (which cannot be shared similarities), not the 
inference of the very hypothesis to which the theorem is to be applied.

Thanks,
Kirk

At 04:39 PM 10/4/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Announcing a Special Symposium! New Applications of Bayesian
>Inference in Phylogenetic Biology

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J. Kirk Fitzhugh, Ph.D.
Curator of Polychaetes
Invertebrate Zoology Section
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Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
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