Change in View offers an entirely original approach to the philosophical study of reasoning by identifying principles of reasoning with principles for revising one's beliefs and intentions and not with principles of logic.
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"Professor Harman has set new standards of clarity and insight for issues of reasoning and planning that are increasingly important in current artificial intelligence research. His point of view has great unifying power"
- Jon Doyle, Carnegie-Mellon University
"Gilbert Harman argues stoutly that 'there is no clearly significant way in which logic is specialty relevant to reasoning' . . . . This is an immensely sharp-witted book."
- Martin Hollis, Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gilbert Harman is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind.
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This review is from: Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (Bradford Books) (Paperback)
Change in View is generally recorded as the exemplary expression of the explanatory coherence theory of justification. It is a fine book, though perhaps other explanatory coherentist texts are more worthy of this title. In terms of clarity and effectiveness of writing, I prefer Lycan's Judgement and Justification; rigor, Jay Rosenberg's One World and Our Knowledge of It; applicability to science, Paul Thagard's Conceptual Revolutions. Harman is a first rate philosopher, though perhaps the least engaging writer of those just mentioned, all of whom are also first rate philosophers. If Harman's book has an advantage over these other texts, it is perhaps that it manages to be slightly more rigorous than Lycan's book, but more accessible than Rosenberg's. In general, I would recommend any of these books only to those fairly well-read in epistemology.
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