Belief's own ethics /

The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Jonathan Eric, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
©2002
Temas:
Belief and doubt.
Evidence.
Prejudices.
Ethics
Prejudice
Croyance et doute.
Évidence.
Préjugés.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Prejudices
Belief and doubt
Evidence
Ethiek.
Evidentie.
Geloof.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Getting off the wrong track
  • 2. Can one will to believe?
  • 3. Normative epistemology : the deceptively large scope of the incoherence test
  • 4. Evading evidentialism and exploiting "possibility" : strategies of ignorance, isolation, and inflation
  • 5. Testimony : background reasons to accept the word of others
  • 6. Tacit confirmation and the regress
  • 7. Three paradoxes of belief
  • 8. Constraints on us to fully believe
  • 9. Interlude-transparency, full belief, accommodation
  • 10. The compatibility of full belief and doubt
  • 11. Prospects for self-control : reasonableness, self-correction, and the fallibility structure.

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