Belief's own ethics / Jonathan E. Adler.

The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adler, Jonathan Eric, 1948-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002. ©2002
Subjects:	Belief and doubt. Evidence. Prejudices. PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology. Prejudices Belief and doubt Evidence Ethiek. Evidentie. Geloof.
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Table of Contents:

1. Getting off the wrong track
2. Can one will to believe?
3. Normative epistemology : the deceptively large scope of the incoherence test
4. Evading evidentialism and exploiting "possibility" : strategies of ignorance, isolation, and inflation
5. Testimony : background reasons to accept the word of others
6. Tacit confirmation and the regress
7. Three paradoxes of belief
8. Constraints on us to fully believe
9. Interlude-transparency, full belief, accommodation
10. The compatibility of full belief and doubt
11. Prospects for self-control : reasonableness, self-correction, and the fallibility structure.

Belief's own ethics / Jonathan E. Adler.

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