On believing and being convinced / Paul Silva Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silva, Paul, Jr., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology, 2398-0567

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Our doxastic states are our belief-like states, and these include outright doxastic states and degreed doxastic states. The former include believing that p, having the opinion that p, thinking that p, being sure that p, being certain that p, and doubting that p. The latter include degrees of confidence, credences, and perhaps some phenomenal states. But we also have conviction (being convinced simpliciter that p) and degrees of conviction (being more or less convinced that p). This Element shows: how and why all of the outright doxastic states mentioned above can be reduced to conviction thresholds; what degrees of conviction fundamentally are (degreed reliance-dispositions); why degrees of conviction are not credences; when suspending a belief is compatible with continuing to believe; and the surprising extent to which Kant endorsed the theory of conviction that emerges in this Element.

Contents:

Conviction and its doxastic neighbourhood

Degrees of conviction and the reduction of outright states

The metaphysics of belief and degrees of conviction

The Sui generity of degrees of conviction

Belief-suspension compatibilism

Was Kanta Kantian about doxastic states? / by Christopher Benzenberg,

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2025).

ISBN:

9781009524117

1009524119

OCLC:

1472848608

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