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Andrew Goffey +1
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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May 2014
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Andrew Goffey +1
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
May 2014
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Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the history of the ideas governing evidentialism. As well as Clifford's argument from the examples of the shipowner, the consequences of credulity and his defense against skepticism, it tackles James's conditions for a genuine option and the structure of the will to believe case as a counter-example to Clifford's evidentialism. Exploring the question of whether James's case successfully counters Clifford's evidentialist rule for belief, this study captures the debate between those who hold that one should proportion belief to evidence and those who hold that the evidentialist norm is too restrictive. More than a sustained explication of the essays, it also surveys recent epistemological arguments to evidentialism.
But it is by bringing Clifford and James into fruitful conversation for the first time that this study presents a clearer history of the issues and provides an important reconstruction of the notion of evidence in contemporary epistemology.
Authors
Andrew Goffey +1
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
May 2014
Weight
514g
Page Count
240
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
ISBN
9781623560171
ISBN-10
1623560179
Eden Code
4257933
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ISBN: 9781623560171
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Release Date: May 2014
Weight: 514g
Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
Eden Code: 4257933