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Published: 28th December 1984
ISBN: 9780521254571
Number Of Pages: 312
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Published: 2nd November 2006This is a collection of Isaac Levi's philosophical papers. Over the period represented by the work here, Professor Levi has developed an interrelated set of views, in the tradition of Peirce and Dewey, on epistemology and the philosophy of science and social science. This focus has been on the problem of induction and the growth of knowledge, the foundations of probability and the theory of rational decision making. His most important essays in these areas are assembled here, with an introduction setting out their main themes and connections. Part I considers how the aims of scientific inquiry should constrain its practice, employing the crucial notion of 'epistemic utility'. The essays in Part II explain Professor Levi's conception of human knowledge; those in Part III consider objective or statistical probability and evaluate the notion of potential surprise; while Part IV extends his views to central questions of individual and collective decision making. As a whole the volume presents a coherent, elaborated position which will be of great interest to a range of philosophers, decision theorists, welfare and social choice theorists and cognitive scientists.
| Preface | |
| Cognitive Decision Making | |
| Must the scientist make value judgements? | |
| On the seriousness of mistakes | |
| Corroboration and rules of acceptance | |
| Deductive cogency in inductive inference | |
| Information and inference | |
| Epistemic utility and the evaluation of experiments | |
| Abduction and demands for information | |
| Knowledge and Ignorance | |
| Truth, fallibility and the growth of knowledge | |
| Four types of ignorance | |
| Escape from boredom: edification according to Rorty | |
| Serious possibility | |
| Chance and Surprise | |
| Subjectives, disposition and chances | |
| Direct inference | |
| Potential surprise: its role in inference and decision making | |
| Decision Making | |
| Newcomb's many problems | |
| Conflict and social agency | |
| Liberty and welfare | |
| Bibliography of Isaac Levi | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index of names | |
| Index of subjects | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521254571
ISBN-10: 0521254574
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 312
Published: 28th December 1984
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24
x 2.06
Weight (kg): 0.63
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