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Between probability and certainty : what justifies belief / Martin Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Certainty.
- Probabilities--Philosophy.
- Probabilities.
- Belief and doubt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- What justifies belief
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Martin Smith explores the question of what it takes for a belief to be justified or rational. He argues that in order to have justification for believing a proposition, one's evidence must normically support it-roughly, one's evidence must make the falsity of that proposition abnormal in the sense of calling for special, independent explanation.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the risk minimisation conception of justification
- Two epistemic goals
- What justifies belief
- Justification and lotteries
- Multiple premise closure
- Comparative justification
- Protection from error
- Similar worlds, normal worlds
- Introducing degrees
- Refining risk minimisation: the impossibility results
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 27, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181663-9
- OCLC:
- 1112355174
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