ISBN:
9780191994227
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9780198886167
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9780198886150
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
121/.6
Keywords:
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
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Reason
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PHILOSOPHY
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Logic
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Mind & Body
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Philosophy
Abstract:
Recent work in the epistemology of inquiry transcends traditional epistemology, asking how agents should collect and assess evidence in order to decide what to believe. Thorstad links the epistemology of inquiry to the study of bounded rationality, proposing a novel theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Inquiry under bounds -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Two turns in the study of human rationality -- 2 The way forward -- Part I: Rationality at the Crossroads -- 1: The Standard Picture -- 1.1 The emergence of the Standard Picture -- 1.2 Arguments for the Standard Picture -- 1.3 Descriptive trouble for the Standard Picture -- 1.4 Retaining the Standard Picture -- 1.5 Modifying the Standard Picture -- 2: Bounded rationality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Bounds matter -- 2.3 Process focus -- 2.4 Heuristic rationality -- 2.5 Ecological rationality
Description / Table of Contents:
2.6 Vindicatory epistemology -- 2.7 The way forward -- Part II: Norms of Inquiry -- 3: An account of rational inquiry -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Consequentialism: direct and global -- 3.2.1 Direct consequentialism -- 3.2.2 Global consequentialism -- 3.3 Reason-responsiveness -- 3.3.1 Motivations -- 3.3.2 Developing the view -- 3.4 Possessed reasons: objective, subjective, and information-sensitive -- 3.4.1 Moving beyond objectivism and subjectivism -- 3.4.2 Information-sensitivity -- 3.4.3 Support for information-sensitivity -- 3.5 Additional components of the account -- 3.5.1 Level separation
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5.2 Rich axiology -- 3.5.3 Consequentializing -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4: There are no epistemic norms of inquiry -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Strategy and motivation -- 4.3 Clarifying the view -- 4.4 The argument from non-existence -- 4.5 The linguistic argument -- 4.6 Theoretical roles -- 4.6.1 The analysis of knowledge -- 4.6.2 Settling deliberation -- 4.7 Objections and replies -- 4.7.1 All norms of inquiry are epistemic -- 4.7.2 A terminological matter? -- 4.7.3 Reasons -- 4.7.4 Grounds for positing epistemic norms -- 4.7.5 Existence is cheap, importance is expensive -- 4.8 Thinking how to live
Description / Table of Contents:
4.9 Conclusion -- Part III: Justifying the Account -- 5: The argument from minimal criteria -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Three minimal criteria -- 5.2.1 Tradeoff-sensitivity -- 5.2.2 Stakes-sensitivity -- 5.2.3 Explaining the irrationality of stereotyping -- 5.3 The knowledge aim of inquiry -- 5.4 Approximate coherentism -- 5.5 Pragmatism -- 5.6 Stakes and tradeoffs -- 5.7 Stereotyping -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6: The explanatory argument -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Clutter avoidance -- 6.3 Duties of friendship -- 6.4 Logical omniscience -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Part IV: Applying the Account
Description / Table of Contents:
7: Vindicatory epistemology -- 7.1 Reaping what we have sown -- 7.2 Vindicatory epistemology -- 7.3 Four desiderata for a vindicatory program -- 7.4 Three vindicatory strategies -- 7.5 Anchoring and adjustment -- 7.5.1 The origins of anchoring and adjustment -- 7.5.2 Anchoring and adjustment -- 7.5.3 Anchoring without adjustment -- Response biases -- Numerical priming -- Selective accessibility -- 7.6 Logical reasoning -- 7.6.1 Introduction -- 7.6.2 The information-gain model -- 7.6.3 Deontic selection -- 7.6.4 Evidence for the information-gain model -- 7.6.5 Banishing Pangloss -- 7.7 Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: Specialized
