Belief and Counterfactuals
A Study in Means-End Philosophy
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2714099 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Franz Huber (0000-0003-4298-4282, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-01-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Revista | Belief and Counterfactuals (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199976119.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3211704310 |
| Open Library | OL35563463M |
| ISBN | 9780199976119 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 3 |
This book is the first of two volumes on belief and counterfactuals. It consists of six of a total of eleven chapters. The first volume is concerned primarily with questions in epistemology and is expository in parts. Among other theories, it provides an accessible introduction to belief revision and ranking theory. Ranking theory specifies how conditional beliefs should behave. It does not tell us why they should do so nor what they are. This book fills these two gaps. The consistency argument tells us why conditional beliefs should obey the laws of ranking theory by showing them to be the means to attaining the end of holding true and informative beliefs. The conditional theory of conditional belief tells us what conditional beliefs are by specifying their nature in terms of non-conditional belief and counterfactuals. In addition, the book contains several novel arguments, accounts, and applications. These include an argument for the thesis that there are only hypothetical imperatives and no categorical imperatives; an account of the instrumentalist understanding of normativity, or rationality, according to which one ought to take the means to one's ends; as well as solutions to the problems of conceptual belief change, logical learning, and learning conditionals. A distinctive feature of the book is its unifying methodological approach: means-end philosophy. Means-end philosophy takes serious that philosophy is a normative discipline, and that philosophical problems are entangled with each other. It also explains the importance of logic to philosophy, without being a technical theory itself
Argument (complex analysis) · Belief revision · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · Instrumentalism · Rationality · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 0,33 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
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