Readings in Formal Epistemology: Sourcebook

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  • Horacio Arló-Costa (Editor)
  • Hendricks, Vincent F. (Editor)
  • Johan van Benthem (Editor)
  • Henrik Boensvang (Editor)
  • Rasmus Kræmmer Rendsvig (Editor)
‘Formal epistemology’ is a term coined in the late 1990s for a new constellation of interests in philosophy,the roots of which are found in earlier works of epistemologists, philosophers of science, and logicians. It addresses a growing agenda of problems concerning knowledge, belief, certainty, rationality, deliberation, decision, strategy, action and agent interaction – and it does so using methods from logic, probability, computability, decision, and game theory. This volume presents 42 classic texts in formal epistemology, and strengthens the ties between research into this area of philosophy and its neighbouring intellectual disciplines. The editors provide introductions to five basic subsections: Bayesian Epistemology, Belief Change, Decision Theory, Interactive Epistemology and Logics of Knowledge and Belief. The volume also includes a thorough index and suggestions for further reading, and thus offers a complete teaching and research package for students as well as research scholars of formal epistemology, philosophy, logic,computer science, theoretical economics and cognitive psychology.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Number of pages960
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-20450-5
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-20451-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
SeriesSpringer graduate texts in philosophy
Volume1

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