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Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing : Changing Beliefs Through Inquiry by Isaac Levi (1991, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521412668

ISBN-139780521412667

eBay Product ID (ePID)580203

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFixation of Belief and Its Undoing : Changing Beliefs Through Inquiry

SubjectEpistemology, Probability & Statistics / General, Logic

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics, Philosophy

AuthorIsaac Levi

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.3 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN91-014207

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing is a paradigm of pragmatic philosophy, for it is a sustained and serious attempt at working out a theory of how inquiry is and should be conducted." Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Dewey Decimal121/.6

SynopsisIsaac Levi's new book is concerned with how one can justify changing one's beliefs. The discussion is deeply informed by the belief-doubt model advocated by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, of which the book provides a substantial analysis., Isaac Levi's new book is concerned with how one can justify changing one's beliefs. The discussion is deeply informed by the belief-doubt model advocated by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, of which the book provides a substantial analysis. Professor Levi then addresses the conceptual framework of potential changes available to an inquirer. A structural approach to propositional attitudes is proposed, which rejects the conventional view that a propositional attitude involves a relation between an agent and either a linguistic entity or some other intentional object such as a proposition or set of possible worlds. The last two chapters offer an account of change in states of full belief understood as changes in commitments rather than changes in performance; one chapter deals with adding new information to a belief state, the other with giving up information. The book builds upon topics discussed in some of Levi's earlier work. It will be of particular interest to discussion theorists, epistemologists, philosophers of science, computer scientists, and cognitive psychologists.

LC Classification NumberBD215 .L45 1991