Author | : Richard Pettigrew |
File Size | : 51,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 17 April 2024 |
ISBN | : 9780198732716 |
Pages | : 251 pages |
Accuracy and the Laws of Credence by Richard Pettigrew Book PDF Summary
Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief). He draws on decision theory in order to justify the central tenets of Bayesian epistemology, and sets out a veritistic account of epistemic utility.