The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we aremore 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, or other,behaviour is concerned. This anthology is the first book to give a balanced overview of these theories. It also explicitly 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. The paradigmatic theory, probabilism (which holds that degrees of belief ought to satisfy the axioms of probability theory) is given most attention, but competing theories, suchas Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory, and AGM belief revision theoryare also considered. Each of these approaches is represented by one of its major proponents. Only anthology also targetting non-researchers in the fast-growing field of formal epistemology, making it suitable as teaching tool Distinguished authors introduce the major theories of degrees of belief, so the book is also suitable as authoritative reference work Provides a balanced overview of competing theories and so challenges the paradigm of probabilism INDICE: 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? EpistemicProbability 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 — or Against — Probabilism?; AlanHájek.- IV. Logical Approaches. Degrees All the Way Down. Beliefs, Non-Beliefs, and Disbeliefs; Hans Rott. Levels of Belief and Non-Monotonic Reasoning; David Makinson.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9197-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 375
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés