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Belief's own ethics / Jonathan E. Adler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bradford bookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.Description: xv, 357 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262011921 (alk. paper)
  • 9780262011921 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 121.6 A237B
LOC classification:
  • BD215 .A35 2002
Contents:
1. Getting Off the Wrong Track. I. The Intrinsic Ethics of Belief. II. Extrinsic Ethics of Belief -- 2. Can One Will to Believe? -- 3. Normative Epistemology: The Deceptively Large Scope of the Incoherence Test -- 4. Evading Evidentialism and Exploiting "Possibility": Strategies of Ignorance, Isolation, and Inflation. I. Arguments from Ignorance. II. Isolation and Testability. III. Inflation as Distraction -- 5. Testimony: Background Reasons to Accept the Word of Others -- 6. Tacit Confirmation and the Regress -- 7. Three Paradoxes of Belief -- 8. Constraints on Us to Fully Believe -- 9. Interlude -- Transparency, Full Belief, Accommodation -- 10. The Compatibility of Full Belief and Doubt
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 121.6 A237B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062929

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-347) and index.

1. Getting Off the Wrong Track. I. The Intrinsic Ethics of Belief. II. Extrinsic Ethics of Belief -- 2. Can One Will to Believe? -- 3. Normative Epistemology: The Deceptively Large Scope of the Incoherence Test -- 4. Evading Evidentialism and Exploiting "Possibility": Strategies of Ignorance, Isolation, and Inflation. I. Arguments from Ignorance. II. Isolation and Testability. III. Inflation as Distraction -- 5. Testimony: Background Reasons to Accept the Word of Others -- 6. Tacit Confirmation and the Regress -- 7. Three Paradoxes of Belief -- 8. Constraints on Us to Fully Believe -- 9. Interlude -- Transparency, Full Belief, Accommodation -- 10. The Compatibility of Full Belief and Doubt

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