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.
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"The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing is a paradigm of pragmatic philosophy, for it is a sustained and serious attempt at working out a theory of how inquiry is and should be conducted." Canadian Philosophical Reviews
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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.
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As inquiring agents modify their evolving doctrines, they come to believe where they were initially doubtful. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
saturatable contractions, doxastic proposition, coerced contraction, expansion into inconsistency, corpus expressible, new informational value, recognizability condition, admissible contractions, deducibility preservation, probabilistic monotonicity condition, routine expansion, maxichoice contractions, doxastic performance, inferential expansion, optimal contraction strategies, standard for serious possibility condition, commensurability thesis, recovery postulate, corpora expressible, messianic realism, weak monotonicity condition, more informational value, ultimate partition, legitimate contractions, doxastic commitment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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saturatable contractions, doxastic proposition, coerced contraction, expansion into inconsistency, corpus expressible, new informational value, recognizability condition, admissible contractions, deducibility preservation, probabilistic monotonicity condition, routine expansion, maxichoice contractions, doxastic performance, inferential expansion, optimal contraction strategies, standard for serious possibility condition, commensurability thesis, recovery postulate, corpora expressible, messianic realism, weak monotonicity condition, more informational value, ultimate partition, legitimate contractions, doxastic commitment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Causation in Decision, Belief Change and Statistics (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science) by W.L. Harper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Epistemology and Inference by Henry Ely Kyburg in Back Matter
- The Probable and the Provable (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) by L.Jonathan Cohen in Back Matter
- Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (C Pedd T the Philosophical Ess) by Donald Davidson in Back Matter
- A Primer on Determinism (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science) by John Earman in Back Matter
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- Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory) by Erik J. Olsson on 6 pages
- Scientific Method in Practice by Hugh G. Gauch Jr in Back Matter
- Critical Scientific Realism (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) by Ilkka Niiniluoto in Back Matter
- A Companion to Pragmatism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by John R. Shook on page 385
- Children's Right to Freedom, Care and Enlightenment (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Bertram Bandman on page 317
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