The Fixation of Belief and its Undoing

Changing Beliefs through Inquiry

Isaac Levi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11029-7 (ISBN)

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Isaac Levi's new book is concerned with how one can justify changing one's beliefs. The discussion is deeply informed by the belief-doubt model advocated by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, of which the book provides a substantial analysis. Professor Levi then addresses the conceptual framework of potential changes available to an inquirer. A structural approach to propositional attitudes is proposed, which rejects the conventional view that a propositional attitude involves a relation between an agent and either a linguistic entity or some other intentional object such as a proposition or set of possible worlds. The last two chapters offer an account of change in states of full belief understood as changes in commitments rather than changes in performance; one chapter deals with adding new information to a belief state, the other with giving up information. The book builds upon topics discussed in some of Levi's earlier work. It will be of particular interest to discussion theorists, epistemologists, philosophers of science, computer scientists, and cognitive psychologists.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Full belief; 3. Expansion; 4. Contractions; Notes; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2009
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-521-11029-7 / 0521110297
ISBN-13	978-0-521-11029-7 / 9780521110297
Zustand	Neuware