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...Igor Douven Leitgeb Hannes , The Stability of Belief: How Rational Belief Coheres with Probability . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv + 365 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 There is an ongoing debate about how to connect categorical beliefs to graded beliefs...

...Andrew Chignell Cornell University 2007 Belief in Kant Andrew Chignell Cornell University A. Overview Most work in Kant’s epistemology focuses on what happens “upstream” from experience, prior...

...Wayne Proudfoot Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell, eds., God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 282 pp. Cornell University 2008 xxx pr08-004 June 10, 2008 10:56...

...Andrew Dole John Bishop. Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. xii + 250 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza’s Method. Cambridge: Cambridge...

...Peter Langland-Hassan Zimmerman Aaron Z. , Belief: A Pragmatic Picture . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xi + 179 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 Faced with the live, forced, and momentous option of whether to accept some form of theism, William James had...

...Barry Lam If you are currently a reliable epistemic agent in some domain, you would not want to adopt a rule of belief-revision in that domain that rendered you less reliable. However, you probably would want to adopt a rule that rendered you more reliable in that domain. In the epistemology...

... , ed. Beall J. C. , 312 - 30 . New York : Oxford University Press . Belief and Indeterminacy Michael Caie University of Rochester 1. Introduction What attitude should a rational agent have toward...

... : 323 – 42 . ———. 2011b. “ Self-Location Is No Problem for Conditionalization .” Synthese 182 : 393 – 411 . ———. Forthcoming. “ Dynamic Beliefs and the Passage of Time .” In Attitudes “De Se”: Linguistics, Epistemology, Metaphysics , ed. Feit A. Capone N. . Palo Alto, CA...

...Nishi Shah Cornell University 2003 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 4 (October 2003) How Truth Governs Belief Nishi Shah Introduction Why, when asking oneself whether to believe that p, must one immediately recognize...

...Scott Stapleford McCormick Miriam Schleifer , Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief . New York: Routledge , 2015 . xiv + 144 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 A spanner in the works: that's how evidentialists will see this new book by Miriam...

...Kelly Becker Zalabardo José L. , Scepticism and Reliable Belief . Oxford : Oxford University Press , xi +215 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 José Zalabardo takes an unusual approach to skepticism in this book. Most epistemologists acknowledge the force of skepticism...

...Jennifer Lackey This essay raises new objections to the two dominant approaches to understanding the justification of group beliefs— inflationary views, where groups are treated as entities that can float freely from the epistemic status of their members’ beliefs, and deflationary views, where...

...Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Hazlett Allan , A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2013 . xi + 302 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 We commonly think of true belief as something valuable. In his provocative and well...

...Sarah Moss This paper defends an account of full belief, including an account of its relationship to credence. Along the way, I address several familiar and difficult questions about belief. Does fully believing a proposition require having maximal confidence in it? Are rational beliefs closed...

...Barry Maguire; Jack Woods It is plausible that there is a distinctively epistemic standard of correctness for belief. It is also plausible that there is a range of practical reasons bearing on belief. These theses are often thought to be in tension with each other. To resolve the tension...

...Joseph Y. Halpern PROBABILITY AND CONDITIONALS: BELIEF REVISION AND RATIONAL DECISION. Edited by Ellery Eells and Brian Skyrms. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 207 Cornell University 2000 Adams, E. 1966 . “Probability and the Logic of Conditionals.” In Aspects...

...Baron Reed Zagzebski Linda , Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . xiii +279 pp . © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 It is an exceptionally rare book that can be both a cutting-edge work...

...Allan Hazlett Gibbons John , The Norm of Belief . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . xv +302 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 This is a difficult book on a difficult subject. Gibbons's ostensive topic is the apparent incompatibility of three plausible ideas...

...Kenny Easwaran Titelbaum Michael Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . xii +345 pp. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 Many philosophers have suggested that a fruitful way to think about belief...

...Hannes Leitgeb This essay develops a joint theory of rational (all-or-nothing) belief and degrees of belief. The theory is based on three assumptions: the logical closure of rational belief; the axioms of probability for rational degrees of belief; and the so-called Lockean thesis, in which...