This 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.
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