The Aim of Belief

Herausgeber: Chan, Timothy

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Produktbeschreibung

The Aim of Belief is the first book devoted to the question: 'what is belief?' Eleven newly commissioned essays by leading authors reflect the state of the art and further advance the current debate. The book will be key reading for researchers working on philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, and meta-ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672134
• ISBN-10: 019967213X
• Artikelnr.: 40307794

Autorenporträt

Timothy Chan is a Researcher at the University of Oslo for the Reflective Mind research project, which has been awarded funding by the Research Council of Norway. Before moving to Norway, he was lecturer at the University of East Anglia and taught at several other universities in the UK and Hong Kong. He has published research articles in journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* 1: Timothy Chan: Introduction: Aiming at Truth
* 2: Paul Horwich: Belief-Truth Norms
* 3: Pascal Engel: In Defense of Normativism about the Aim of Belief
* 4: David Papineau: There Are No Norms of Belief
* 5: Kathrin Glüer and Åsa Wikforss: Against Belief Normativity
* 6: Krister Bykvist and Anandi Hattiangadi: Belief, Truth and
Blindspots
* 7: Ralph Wedgwood: What is The Right Thing to Believe?
* 8: Jonathan Adler and Michael Hicks: Non-Evidential Reasons to
Believe
* 9: Andrew Reisner: Leaps of Knowledge
* 10: Daniel Whiting: Nothing but the Truth: On the Norms and Aims of
Belief
* 11: Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen: Truth as the Aim of Epistemic
Justification
* Index