Overview
- Strengthens the ties between research in philosophy and its neighbouring intellectual principles
- Provides separate introductions to the five fields of formal epistemology, an elaborate index and suggestions for further reading
- Offers a complete teaching and research package for students as well as research scholars
Part of the book series: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy (SGTP, volume 1)
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This volume presents 38 classic texts in formal epistemology, and strengthens the ties between research into this area of philosophy and its neighbouring intellectual disciplines. The editors provide introductions to five subsections: Bayesian Epistemology, Belief Change, Decision Theory, Interactive Epistemology and Epistemic Logic.
'Formal epistemology' is a term coined in the late 1990s for a new constellation of interests in philosophy, the origins of which are found in earlier works of epistemologists, philosophers of science and logicians. It addresses a growing agenda of problems concerning knowledge, belief, certainty, rationality, deliberation, decision, strategy, action and agent interaction – and it does so using methods from logic, probability, computability, decision and game theory. The volume also includes a thorough index and suggestions for further reading, and thus offers a complete teaching and research package for students as well as research scholars of formal epistemology, philosophy, logic, computer science, theoretical economics and cognitive psychology.
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Keywords
- Ambiguity and the Bayesian paradigm
- Bayesian Epistemology
- Belief Contraction and General Theory of Rational Choice
- Epistemology without knowledge and without belief
- Introduction to Belief Change
- Introduction to Decision Theory
- Introduction to Interactive Epistemology
- Introduction to Logics of Knowledge and Belief
- Logic of theory change
- Probable knowledge
- Ranking Theory
- Substantive rationality and backward induction
- Truth and probability
- dynamic interactive belief revision
- logic of public announcements
Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Bayesian Epistemology
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Belief Change
Reviews
“The book serves its purpose. The editors include an introductory chapter for each part, which makes the book worth reading. It is an interesting read for philosophers, historians … .” (Lalit Saxena, Computing Reviews, October 4, 2021)
“The editors perform a valuable service in collecting and organizing a set of essays that can provide the dedicated reader with a firm and comprehensive background in formal epistemology. … Readings in Formal Epistemology is a wonderful set of skillfully edited essays. Every graduate student and young researcher working in formal epistemology should read the essays in this volume.” (Conor Mayo-Wilson, Metascience, Vol. 26, 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Readings in Formal Epistemology
Book Subtitle: Sourcebook
Editors: Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem
Series Title: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20451-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20450-5Published: 15 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79303-0Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20451-2Published: 07 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2627-6046
Series E-ISSN: 2627-6054
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 937
Number of Illustrations: 135 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences