Rationality and Belief

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Ralph Wedgwood (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern California)

Rationality and Belief

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Ralph Wedgwood (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern California)

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Oxford University Press
02 June 2023

Philosophy of language; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind

This book gives a general theory of rational belief. Although it can be read by itself, is a sequel to the author's previous book The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017). It takes the general conception of rationality that was defended in that earlier book, and combines it with an account of the varieties of belief, and of what it is for these beliefs to count as <""correct> "", to develop an account of what it is for beliefs to count as rational. According to this account, rationality comes in degrees: the degree to which one's beliefs counts as rational is determined by their distance from a corresponding probability function - where this distance is measured by those beliefs' <""expected degree of incorrectness> "" according to the probability function; the account also involves an explanation of what determines exactly which probability function plays this role in each case, and of why this probability function should play this role. In developing and defending this account, new light is shed on several central epistemological issues. These issues include: the distinction between propositional and doxastic justification; the debates between internalism and externalism, and between foundationalism and coherentism; the significance - or lack of it - of the notion of 'evidence'; the relationship between credences, full belief, inference, and suspension of judgment; the nature of the kind of possibility that is presupposed by the relevant sort of probability; and whether rationality is <""diachronic> "" - so that the beliefs that it is rational for us to have now depend, in part, on the beliefs that we held in the past. Finally, some suggestions are made about how this theory bears on a range of further topics, including the defeasibility of inference, scepticism, and the analysis of knowledge.

By: Ralph Wedgwood (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy University of Southern California)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780198874492
ISBN 10: 0198874499
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue Introduction Part I: Rationality Revisited 1: The Value of Rational Belief 2: Doxastic Rationality 3: Holistic Coherence with the Given 4: The Pitfalls of 'Evidence' Part II: The Varieties of Belief 5: The Varieties of Belief 6: Full Belief 7: Correct Belief 8: The Measurement of Incorrectness Part III: Rational Probability 9: The Idea of Rational Probability 10: Uniqueness and Indeterminacy 11: Epistemic Necessity 12: Synchronic Constraints 13: Diachronic Constraints Epilogue 14: The Great Questions of Epistemology

Ralph Wedgwood is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was educated at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, at King's College London, and at Cornell University, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Merton College, University of Oxford, before moving to California in 2012. His primary interests are in epistemology and ethics (including metaethics, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics). He has published more than sixty articles and two previous books, The Nature of Normativity (Oxford, 2007) and The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017).