Degrees of Belief

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Huber, Franz (Editor ), Schmidt-Petri, Christoph (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 342
Temas:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science-Philosophy.
Probabilities.
Artificial intelligence.
Logic.
Computer science-Mathematics.
Mathematical statistics.
Epistemology.
Philosophy of Science.
Probability Theory.
Artificial Intelligence.
Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Belief and Degrees of Belief
  • Belief and Degrees of Belief
  • Plain Belief and Degrees of Belief
  • Beliefs, Degrees of Belief, and the Lockean Thesis
  • The Lockean Thesis and the Logic of Belief
  • Partial Belief and Flat-Out Belief
  • What Laws Should Degrees of Belief Obey?
  • 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-Probabilism?
  • Diachronic Coherence and Radical Probabilism
  • Accuracy and Coherence: Prospects for an Alethic Epistemology of Partial Belief
  • Logical Approaches
  • Degrees All the Way Down: Beliefs, Non-Beliefs and Disbeliefs
  • Levels of Belief in Nonmonotonic Reasoning.

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