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  title info:
    title: Between probability and certainty
    sub title: what justifies belief
  name:
    name part: Smith, Martin
    name part: (Of University of Edinburgh)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Martin Smith explores a question central to philosophy - namely, what does it take for a belief to be justified or rational? According to a widespread view, whether one has justification for believing a proposition is determined by how probable that proposition is given one's evidence. In the present book this view is rejected and replaced with another: in order for one 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. This conception of justification bears upon a range of topics in epistemology and beyond, including the relation between justification and knowledge, the force of statistical evidence, the problem of scepticism, the lottery and preface paradoxes, the viability of multiple premise closure, the internalist/externalist debate, the psychology of human reasoning, and the relation between belief and degrees of belief. Ultimately, this way of looking at justification guides us to a new, unfamiliar picture of how we should respond to our evidence and manage our own fallibility. This picture is developed here.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Martin Smith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  subject:
    topic: Croyance et doute
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  classification: BD171 .S57 2016
  classification: 121.6/3
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    title info:
      title: Between probability and certainty
    name:
      name part: Smith, Martin (Of University of Edinburgh).
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)915509093
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160427
    record change date: 20260319181124.0
    record identifier: in00005717500
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng