If You Must Do Confirmation Theory - Do It This Way

David Miller (Warwick) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (21 June, 2012) titled "If You Must Do Confirmation Theory - Do It This Way". Abstract: In this talk I begin to draw together, and package into a coherent philosophical position, a number of ideas that in the last 25 years I have alluded to, or sometimes stated explicitly, concerning the properties and the merits of the measure of deductive dependence q(c|a) of one proposition c on another proposition a; that is, the measure to which the (deductive) content of c is included within the content of a.