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Author Adler, Jonathan Eric, 1948-

Title Belief's own ethics / Jonathan E. Adler.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bradford book.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-347) and index.
Contents 1. Getting off the wrong track -- 2. Can one will to believe? -- 3. Normative epistemology : the deceptively large scope of the incoherence test -- 4. Evading evidentialism and exploiting "possibility" : strategies of ignorance, isolation, and inflation -- 5. Testimony : background reasons to accept the word of others -- 6. Tacit confirmation and the regress -- 7. Three paradoxes of belief -- 8. Constraints on us to fully believe -- 9. Interlude-transparency, full belief, accommodation -- 10. Compatibility of full belief and doubt -- 11. Prospects for self-control : reasonableness, self-correction, and the fallibility structure.
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Subject Belief and doubt.
Belief and doubt.
Evidence.
Evidence.
Ethics.
Prejudice.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Adler, Jonathan Eric, 1948- Belief's own ethics. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262011921 (DLC) 2001054666 (OCoLC)48241395
ISBN 9780262266826 (electronic book)
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