The aim of belief / edited by Timothy Chan
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Chan, Timothy Hoo Wai, 1973-
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Aiming at Truth / Timothy Chan -- 2.Belief-Truth Norms / Paul Horwich -- 3.In Defence of Normativism about the Aim of Belief / Pascal Engel -- 4.There Are No Norms of Belief / David Papineau -- 5.Against Belief Normativity / Asa Wikforss -- 6.Belief, Truth, and Blindspots / Anandi Hattiangadi -- 7.The Right Thing to Believe / Ralph Wedgwood -- 8.Non-Evidential Reasons to Believe / Michael Hicks -- 9.Leaps of Knowledge / Andrew Reisner -- 10.Nothing but the Truth: On the Norms and Aims of Belief / Daniel Whiting -- 11.Truth as the Aim of Epistemic Justification / Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen.
- Summary
- This title brings together 11 newly commissioned essays by leading authors on the aim of belief. It not only reflects the state of the art, but further advances the current debate. It will be key reading for researchers and students of philosophy interested in mind, knowledge and reason.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191759079 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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