You might also like

More about Laws of Belief

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 236 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentation of ranking theory and its ramifications. He motivates and introduces the basic notion of a ranking function, which recognises degrees of belief and at the same time accounts for belief simpliciter. He provides a measurement theory for ranking functions, accounts for auto-epistemology in ranking-theoretic terms, and explicates the basic notion of a (deductive or non-deductive) reason. The rich philosophical applications of Spohn's theory include: a new account of lawlikeness, an account of ceteris paribus laws, a new perspective on dispositions, a rich and detailed theory of deterministic causation, an understanding of natural modalities as an objectification of epistemic modalities, an account of the experiential basis of belief-and thus a restructuring of the debate on foundationalism and coherentism (and externalism and contextualism)-and, finally, a revival of fundamental a priori principles of reason fathoming the basics of empiricism and the relation between reason and truth, and concluding in a proof of a weak principle of causality. All this is accompanied by thorough comparative discussions, on a general level as well as within each topic, and in particular with respect to probability theory.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

• Full title: Laws of Belief
• Subtitle: Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical Applications
• Author: Wolfgang Spohn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 616
• EAN: 9780198705857
• ISBN: 0198705859
• ID: 04528190
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 870 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---