Putting Logic in Its Place - Formal Constraints on Rational Belief

Zusatztext Putting Logic in its place is a well-written book, made accessible by its brevity and lack of technicality. It will admirably serve both the seasoned hand and the newcomer looking for a survey of the territory. Klappentext Does logic help determine whether beliefs are rational? David Christensen argues that it does - but only once we understand beliefs as coming in degrees. Avoiding mathematical technicality, he explains why the degree-of-belief approach offers the key to understanding how logical arguments work. Philosophers working on formal epistemology and logic, as well as those in related areas of cognitive psychology and decision theory, will find much to stimulate them here. Zusammenfassung What role, if any, does formal logic play in characterizing epistemically rational belief? Traditionally, belief is seen in a binary way - either one believes a proposition, or one doesn't. A less popular picture sees belief as a graded phenomenon. This book explores the relations between these two ways of seeing beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: David Christensen, David (University of Vermont) Christensen, Christensen David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2007
• EAN: 9780199204311
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920431-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Probability & statistics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Probability and statistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge