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Title

Degrees of belief / edited by Franz Huber, Christoph Schmidt-Petri.

Publication

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Huber, Franz.
• Schmidt-Petri, Christoph, 1975-

Description

ix, 345 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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, 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, such as Dempster-Shafer theory, possibility theory, and AGM belief revision theory are also considered. Each of these approaches is represented by one of its major proponents." "The papers are specifically written to target advanced undergraduate students with a background in formal methods and beginning graduate students, but they will also serve as first point of reference for academics new to the area."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of ; 342

Uniform Title

Synthese library ; v. 342.

Subject

Belief and doubt

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Belief and degrees of belief -- Beliefs, degrees of belief, and Lockean thesis -- The Lockean thesis and the logic of belief -- Partial belief and flat-out belief -- 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 -- probabilisim? -- Diachronic coherence and radical probabilism -- Accuracy and coherence: prospects for an alethic epistemology of partial belief -- Degrees all the way down: beliefs, non-beliefs, and disbeliefs -- Level of belief in nonmonotonic reasoning.

ISBN

• 9781402091971 (cased)
• 1402091974 (cased)
• 1402091982 (e-book)
• 9781402091988 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2008935558

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library