Accuracy and the Laws of Credence

by Richard Franklin Pettigrew

Book Overview

Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief). The main principles that he justifies are the central tenets of Bayesian epistemology, though many other related principles are discussed along the way. These are: Probabilism, the claims that credences should obey the laws of probability; the Principal Principle, which says how credences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822464
• ISBN13: 9780198822462
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"