Explaining normativity:

--Maher 1993, explaining intuitions
--Laudan 1984, Ch. 2, on irrelevance of underdetermination-in
-principle: (p. 28):"...we are usually
--Pearl 2000, p. 26, n. 12: "The often-heard argument that human intuitions...."

Theoretical explanation of normative intuitions:

The principle of conditionalization, together with the Bayesian undersanding of what confirmation is, entails that evidence E confirms hypothesis H just in case p(H

Bayesian philosophers of science have shown that this rather modest-looking account of confirmation can explain many methodological intuitions about when, and how strongly, evidence confirms a hypothesis.

Patrick Maher, Betting on Theories, p. 85.
