| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 345 pages) |
| Series |
Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of ; 342 |
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Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of ; 342
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| Contents |
Belief and Degrees of Belief -- Belief and Degrees of Belief -- Plain Belief and Degrees of Belief -- Beliefs, Degrees of Belief, and the Lockean Thesis -- The Lockean Thesis and the Logic of Belief -- Partial Belief and Flat-Out Belief -- What Laws Should Degrees of Belief Obey? -- Epistemic Probability and Coherent Degrees of Belief -- Non-Additive Degrees of Belief -- Accepted Beliefs, Revision and Bipolarity in the Possibilistic Framework -- A Survey of Ranking Theory -- Arguments For--Or Against--Probabilism? -- Diachronic Coherence and Radical Probabilism -- Accuracy and Coherence: Prospects for an Alethic Epistemology of Partial Belief -- Logical Approaches -- Degrees All the Way Down: Beliefs, Non-Beliefs and Disbeliefs -- Levels of Belief in Nonmonotonic Reasoning |
| Summary |
The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we are more certain of some things than of others. This title gives an overview of these theories. It also relates these debates to more traditional concerns of the philosophy of language and mind, and epistemic logic, namely how belief simpliciter does or ought to behave |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Belief and doubt.
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Belief and doubt.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Belief and doubt
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huber, Franz
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Schmidt-Petri, Christoph, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9781402091988 |
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1402091982 |
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