Evidence and agency : norms of belief for promising and resolving / Berislav Marušić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marušić, Berislav, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Agent (Philosophy).

Commitment (Psychology).

Evidence.

Philosophy.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Norms of belief for promising and resolving

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author explores how we should take evidence into account when thinking about future actions, such as resolving to do something we know will be difficult. Should we believe we will follow through, or not? He argues that if it is important to us, we can rationally believe we will do it, even if our belief contradicts the evidence.

Contents:

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Promising and resolving against the evidence : Clarifying the problems

The appeal to trying

An explanatory task: asymmetries between agents, lovers, and observers

Outlook

Conclusion. 2 Sincerity and rationality : Sincerity

Rationality

Propriety

Belief

Conclusion. 3 The non-cognitivist response : Intending

Aiming

Accepting

The combined non-cognitivist response

Conclusion. 4 The practical knowledge response : Practical knowledge

Against the practical knowledge response

Against the practical knowledge approach

Conclusion: practical thought. 5 The evidentialist response : The evidentialist's bridge principles

A disheartening view

Epistemic evasion

Conclusion. 6 The Sartrean response : The agent's point of view

Why belief?

Case studies

Objections and replies : Belief aims at knowledge

Coordination without reconciliation

Foregoing self-knowledge

A comeback for the practical knowledge response?

The idea of freedom

Predictive promises

Pragmatic encroachment

Betting

The difference between promising and resolving

Freedom

Anguish

Conclusion. 7 Trusting against the evidence : The evidentialist response

The calculating response

The testimonial knowledge response

The strawsonian response

Conclusion. Conclusion. Postscript. Glossary. References. Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-102343-4

0-19-178249-1

0-19-102342-6

OCLC:

921176148