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The Fixation of Belief and its Undoing - Changing Beliefs through Inquiry (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,818
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The Fixation of Belief and its Undoing - Changing Beliefs through Inquiry (Hardcover, New): Isaac Levi

The Fixation of Belief and its Undoing - Changing Beliefs through Inquiry (Hardcover, New)

Isaac Levi

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Isaac Levi's new book is concerned with how one can justify changing one's beliefs. The discussion is deeply informed by the belief-doubt model advocated by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, of which the book provides a substantial analysis. Professor Levi then addresses the conceptual framework of potential changes available to an inquirer. A structural approach to propositional attitudes is proposed, which rejects the conventional view that a propositional attitude involves a relation between an agent and either a linguistic entity or some other intentional object such as a proposition or set of possible worlds. The last two chapters offer an account of change in states of full belief understood as changes in commitments rather than changes in performance; one chapter deals with adding new information to a belief state, the other with giving up information. The book builds upon topics discussed in some of Levi's earlier work. It will be of particular interest to discussion theorists, epistemologists, philosophers of science, computer scientists, and cognitive psychologists.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 1991
First published: 1991
Authors: Isaac Levi
Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41266-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 0-521-41266-8
Barcode: 9780521412667

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