The Laws of Belief: Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical ApplicationsOUP Oxford, 29.03.2012 - 598 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Belief and its Objects | 16 |
3 The Probabilistic Way | 32 |
Some Standard Moves | 47 |
5 Ranking Functions | 65 |
6 Reasons and Apriority | 104 |
7 Conditional Independence and Ranking Nets | 125 |
8 The Measurement of Ranks | 162 |
12 Laws and their Confirmation | 271 |
13 Ceteris Paribus Conditions and Dispositions | 304 |
14 Causation | 338 |
15 Objectification | 442 |
16 Justification Perception and Consciousness | 472 |
17 The A Priori Structure of Reasons | 521 |
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Name Index | 581 |
9 Supposing Updating and Reflection | 185 |
10 Ranks and Probabilities | 200 |
11 Comparisons | 225 |
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