Readings in Formal Epistemology: Sourcebook [Hardcover]

This volume presents 38 classic texts in formal epistemology, and strengthens the ties between research into this area of philosophy and its neighbouring intellectual disciplines. The editors provide introductions to five subsections: Bayesian Epistemology, Belief Change, Decision Theory, Interactive Epistemology and Epistemic Logic.

'Formal epistemology' is a term coined in the late 1990s for a new constellation of interests in philosophy, the origins of which are found in earlier works of epistemologists, philosophers of science and logicians. It addresses a growing agenda of problems concerning knowledge, belief, certainty, rationality, deliberation, decision, strategy, action and agent interaction  and it does so using methods from logic, probability, computability, decision and game theory. The volume also includes a thorough index and suggestions for further reading, and thus offers a complete teaching and research package for students as well as research scholars of formal epistemology, philosophy, logic, computer science, theoretical economics and cognitive psychology.

Introduction.- 1. Agency and interaction: what we are and what we do in formal epistemology; Jeffrey Helzner and Vincent F. Hendricks.- Part 1. Bayesian Epistemology: Introduction.- 2. Truth and probability; Frank P. Ramsey.- 3. Probable knowledge; Richard C. Jeffrey.- 4. Fine-?grained opinion, probability and the logic of full belief; Bas C. van Fraassen.- 5. A theory of higher order probabilities; Haim Gaifman.- 6. On indeterminate probabilities; Isaac Levi.- 6. On indeterminate probabilities; Isaac Levi.- 7. Why I am not a Bayesian; Clark Glymour.- 8. A mistake in dynamic coherence arguments? Brian Skyrms.- 9. Some problems for conditionalization and reflection; Frank Arntzenius.- 10. Stopping to reflect; Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld and Joseph B. Kadane.- ?Part II. Belief Change: Introduction.- 11. On the logic of theory change: partial meet conlÓ3