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Auteur(s) : Stalnaker, Robert C.
Titre(s) : Knowledge and conditionals [Texte imprimé] : essays on the structure of inquiry / Robert C. Stalnaker
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (252 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 241-266. Index
Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first
part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the
rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and
what to claim that we know. In the second part he examines conditional statements
and conditional beliefs, their role in epistemology, and their relations to causal
and explanatory concepts, such as dispositions, objective chance, relations of dependence,
and independence. A central concern of the book is the interaction of different cognitive
perspectives - the ways in which the attitudes of rational agents are or should be
influenced by critical reflection on their present cognitive situation, on their own0cognitive
situations at other times, and on the cognitive situations of others with whom they
interact. The general picture that is developed is naturalistic, following Hume in
rejecting a substantive role for pure reason in the defense of inductive rules, and
in giving causal concepts a central role in the description and explanation of our
cognitive practices. However, Stalnaker rejects the side of Hume that aims to reduce
concepts involving natural necessity to more basic descriptive concepts. Instead,
he argues that the development of inductive rules and practices takes place in interaction
with the development of concepts for giving a theoretical description of the world
Sujet(s) : Théorie de la connaissance
Recherche -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
121.6 (23e éd.) = Nature de la recherche de la connaissance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198810342. - ISBN 9780198810346 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456705706
Notice n° :
FRBNF45670570
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Table des matières : On the logics of knowledge and belief ; Luminosity and the KK thesis ; Iterated
belief revision ; Modeling a perspective on the world ; Reflection, endorsement,
calibration ; Rational reflection and the notorious unmarked clock ; Expressivism
and propositions ; Contextualism and the logic of knowledge ; A theory of conditionals
; Conditional propositions and conditional assertions ; Counterfactuals and probability
; Counterfactuals and Humean reduction ; Dispositions and chance.
