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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
The laws of belief
:
ranking theory and its philosophical applications
Enthält:
IntroductionBelief and its objects -- The probabilistic way -- The representation of belief : some standard moves -- Ranking functions -- Reasons and apriority -- Conditional independence and ranking nets -- The measurement of ranks -- Supposing, updating, and reflection -- Ranks and probabilities -- Comparisons -- Laws and their confirmation -- Ceteris paribus conditions and dispositions -- Causation -- Objectification -- Justification, perception, and consciousness -- The a priori structure of reasons.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Anmerkungen:
Literaturverz. S. [556] - 580
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Beschreibung:
"Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentation of ranking theory and its ramifications. He motivates and introduces the basic notion of a ranking function, which recognises degrees of belief and at the same time accounts for belief simpliciter. He provides a measurement theory for ranking functions, accounts for auto-epistemology in ranking-theoretic terms, and explicates the basic notion of a (deductive or non-deductive) reason. The rich philosophical applications of Spohn's theory include: a new account of lawlikeness, an account of ceteris paribus laws, a new perspective on dispositions, a rich and detailed theory of deterministic causation, an understanding of natural modalities as an objectification of epistemic modalities, an account of the experiential basis of belief--and thus a restructuring of the debate on foundationalism and coherentism (and externalism and contextualism)--and, finally, a revival of fundamental a priori principles of reason fathoming the basics of empiricism and the relation between reason and truth, and concluding in a proof of a weak principle of causality. All this is accompanied by thorough comparative discussions, on a general level as well as within each topic, and in particular with respect to probability theory."--Publisher's website