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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Degrees of belief [Texte électronique] / edited by Franz Huber, Christoph Schmidt-Petri
Publication : Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of
; 342
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Huber, Franz (1977-....). Éditeur scientifique
Schmidt-Petri, Christoph (1975-....). Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Croyance (philosophie)
Genre ou forme : Actes de congrès
Indice(s) Dewey :
121.6 (23e éd.) = Nature de la recherche de la connaissance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781402091988
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44658898s
Notice n° :
FRBNF44658898
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.