Readings in formal epistemology : sourcebook /: sourcebook. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem.
• Editors: Arló-Costa, Horacio; Hendricks, Vincent F; Benthem, Johan van, 1949-
• Contents: Introduction.- 1. Agency and interaction: what we are and what we do in formal epistemology; Jeffrey Helzner and Vincent F. Hendricks.- Part 1. Bayesian Epistemology: Introduction.- 2. Truth and probability; Frank P. Ramsey.- 3. Probable knowledge; Richard C. Jeffrey.- 4. Fine-­‐grained opinion, probability and the logic of full belief; Bas C. van Fraassen.- 5. A theory of higher order probabilities; Haim Gaifman.- 6. On indeterminate probabilities; Isaac Levi.- 6. On indeterminate probabilities; Isaac Levi.- 7. Why I am not a Bayesian; Clark Glymour.- 8. A mistake in dynamic coherence arguments? Brian Skyrms.- 9. Some problems for conditionalization and reflection; Frank Arntzenius.- 10. Stopping to reflect; Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld and Joseph B. Kadane.- Part II. Belief Change: Introduction.- 11. On the logic of theory change: partial meet contraction and revision functions; Carlos Alchourrón, Peter Gärdenfors and David Makinson.- 12. Theory contraction and base contraction unified; Sven Ove Hansson.- 13. How infallible but corrigible full belief is possible; Isaac Levi.- 14. Belief contraction in the context of the General Theory of Rational Choice; Hans Rott.- 15. A survey of ranking theory; Wolfgang Spohn.- Part III. Decision Theory: Introduction.- 16. Allais's Paradox; Leonard Savage.- 17. Decision theory without 'independence' or without 'ordering'; Teddy Seidenfeld.- 18. Ambiguity and the Bayesian paradigm; Itzhak Gilboa and Massimo Marinacci.- 19. State dependent utilities; Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld and Joseph B. Kadane.- 20. Causal decision theory; James M. Joyce and Allan Gibbard.- 21. Advances in prospect theory: cumulative representation of uncertainty; Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahnemann.- Part IV. Logics of Knowledge and Belief: Introduction.- 22. Epistemology without knowledge and without belief; Jaakko Hintikka.- 23. Epistemic operators; Fred Dretske.- 24. Elusive knowledge; David Lewis.- 25. Knowledge and skepticism; Robert Nozick.- 26. On logics of knowledge and belief; Robert Stalnaker.- 27. Sentences, belief and logical omniscience, or what does deduction tell us? Rohit Parikh.- 28. The logic of justification; Sergei Artemov.- 29. Learning theory and epistemology; Kevin T. Kelly.- 30. Some computational constraints in epistemic logic; Timothy Williamson.- Part V. Interactive Epistemology: Introduction.- 31. Convention (an excerpt); David Lewis.- 32. Three views of common understanding; Jon Barwise.- 33. The logic of public announcements, common knowledge and private suspicions; Alexandru Baltag, Lawrence S. Moss and Sławomir Solecki.- 34. A qualitative theory of dynamic interactive belief revision; Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets.- 35. Agreeing to disagree; Robert J. Aumann.- 36. Epistemic conditions for Nash equilibrium; Robert J. Aumann and Adam Brandenburger.- 37. Knowledge, belief and counterfactual reasoning in games; Robert Stalnaker.- 38. Substantive rationality and backward induction; Joseph Y. Halpern.​.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (937 pages)
• Subjects: 121; Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; Genetic epistemology; Computer science; Mathematics; Mathematics -- Logic; Mathematics -- Game Theory; Mathematical theory of computation; Game theory; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319204512
• Related ISBNs: 9783319204505
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