Title
Between probability and certainty [electronic resource] : what justifies belief / Martin Smith.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191816635 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755333 doi
Call Number
BD171 .S57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
121.63
Summary
Martin Smith explores the question of what it takes for a belief to be justified or rational. He argues that in order to have justification for believing a proposition, one's evidence must normically support it-roughly, one's evidence must make the falsity of that proposition abnormal in the sense of calling for special, independent explanation.
Note
Martin Smith explores the question of what it takes for a belief to be justified or rational. He argues that in order to have justification for believing a proposition, one's evidence must normically support it-roughly, one's evidence must make the falsity of that proposition abnormal in the sense of calling for special, independent explanation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 27, 2016).
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the risk minimisation conception of justification
Two epistemic goals
What justifies belief
Justification and lotteries
Multiple premise closure
Comparative justification
Protection from error
Similar worlds, normal worlds
Introducing degrees
Refining risk minimisation: the impossibility results
Bibliography
Index.
