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Hardcover Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality Book

ISBN: 0192864351

ISBN13: 9780192864352

Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality

How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that evidence. The argument, which takes inspiration from William James' ideas in 'The Will to Believe', proceeds from two premises. The first is a theory about the basis of epistemic rationality...

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