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Evidence and agency [electronic resource] : norms of belief for promising and resolving / Berislav Marušić.

Marušić, Berislav, author.
2015
BC173 .M37 2015eb
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Title
Evidence and agency [electronic resource] : norms of belief for promising and resolving / Berislav Marušić.
Author
Marušić, Berislav, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191782497 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714040
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714040 doi
Call Number
BC173 .M37 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
121.65
Summary
The author explores how we should take evidence into account when thinking about future actions, such as resolving to do something we know will be difficult. Should we believe we will follow through, or not? He argues that if it is important to us, we can rationally believe we will do it, even if our belief contradicts the evidence.
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The author explores how we should take evidence into account when thinking about future actions, such as resolving to do something we know will be difficult. Should we believe we will follow through, or not? He argues that if it is important to us, we can rationally believe we will do it, even if our belief contradicts the evidence.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015).
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Evidence and agency.
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1. Promising and resolving against the evidence : Clarifying the problems
The appeal to trying
An explanatory task: asymmetries between agents, lovers, and observers
Outlook
Conclusion. 2. Sincerity and rationality : Sincerity
Rationality
Propriety
Belief
Conclusion. 3. The non-cognitivist response : Intending
Aiming
Accepting
The combined non-cognitivist response
Conclusion. 4. The practical knowledge response : Practical knowledge
Against the practical knowledge response
Against the practical knowledge approach
Conclusion: practical thought. 5. The evidentialist response : The evidentialist's bridge principles
A disheartening view
Epistemic evasion
Conclusion. 6. The Sartrean response : The agent's point of view
Why belief?
Case studies
Objections and replies : Belief aims at knowledge
Coordination without reconciliation
Foregoing self-knowledge
A comeback for the practical knowledge response?
The idea of freedom
Predictive promises
Pragmatic encroachment
Betting
The difference between promising and resolving
Freedom
Anguish
Conclusion. 7. Trusting against the evidence : The evidentialist response
The calculating response
The testimonial knowledge response
The strawsonian response
Why belief?
Conclusion.

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