Knowledge and Conditionals: Essays on the Structure of Inquiry 1st Edition Robert C Stalnaker

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198810342
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198810346
• Author(s): Robert C Stalnaker

Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use – or ought to use – to determine what to believe, and what to claim that we know. In the second part he examines conditional statements and conditional beliefs, their role in epistemology, and their relations to causal and explanatory concepts, such as dispositions, objective chance, relations of dependence, and independence. A central concern of the book is the interaction of different cognitive perspectives – the ways in which the attitudes of rational agents are or should be influenced by critical reflection on their present cognitive situation, on their own cognitive situations at other times, and on the cognitive situations of others with whom they interact. The general picture that is developed is naturalistic, following Hume in rejecting a substantive role for pure reason in the defense of inductive rules, and in giving causal concepts a central role in the description and explanation of our cognitive practices. However, Stalnaker rejects the side of Hume that aims to reduce concepts involving natural necessity to more basic descriptive concepts. Instead, he argues that the development of inductive rules and practices takes place in interaction with the development of concepts for giving a theoretical description of the world.

Table contents:

Introduction
Part I: Knowledge
1. On the Logics of Knowledge and Belief
2. Luminosity and the KK Thesis
3. Iterated Belief Revision
4. Modeling a Perspective on the World
5. Reflection, Endorsement, Calibration
6. Rational Reflection and the Notorious Unmarked Clock
7. Expressivism and Propositions
8. Contextualism and the Logic of Knowledge
Part II: Conditionals
9. A Theory of Conditionals
10. Conditional Propositions and Conditional Assertions
11. Counterfactuals and Probability
12. Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction
13. Dispositions and Chance
References
Index

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