Degrees of Belief
The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we are more certain of some things than of others. Various theories try to give accounts of how measures of this confidence do or ought to behave, both as far as the internal mental consistency of the agent as well as his betting...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2009.
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| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9198-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Franz Huber
- I. Plain Belief and Degrees of Belief. Beliefs, Degrees of Belief, and the Lockean Thesis; Richard Foley. The Lockean Thesis and the Logic of Belief; Jim Hawthorne. Partial Belief and Flat-Out Belief; Keith Frankish
- II. What Laws Should Degrees of Belief Obey? Epistemic Probability and Coherent Degrees of Belief; Colin Howson. Non-Additive Degrees of Belief; Rolf Haenni. Accepted Beliefs, Revision and Bipolarity in the Possibilistic Framework; Didier Dubois, Henri Prade. A Survey of Ranking Theory; Wolfgang Spohn
- III. Probabilism. Accuracy and Coherence: Prospects for an Alethic Epistemology of Partial Belief; Jim Joyce. Diachronic Coherence and Radical Probabilism; Brian Skyrms. Arguments For <U+0014> or Against <U+0014> Probabilism?; Alan Hj̀ek
- IV. Logical Approaches. Degrees All the Way Down. Beliefs, Non-Beliefs, and Disbeliefs; Hans Rott. Levels of Belief and Non-Monotonic Reasoning; David Makinson.