Belief, Action, and Rationality Over Time

ISBN-13: 9781138214965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 314 str.

Chrisoula Andreou; Sergio Tenenbaum

Opis

Action theorists and formal epistemologists often pursue parallel inquiries regarding rationality, with the former focused on practical rationality, and the latter focused on theoretical rationality. In both fields, there is currently a strong interest in exploring rationality in relation to time. This exploration raises questions about the rationality of certain patterns over time. For example, it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of intention; similarly, it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of belief. While the action-theoretic and epistemic questions raised are closely related, advances in one field are not always processed by the other. This volume brings together contributions by scholars in action theory and formal epistemology working on questions regarding rationality and time so that researchers in these overlapping fields can profit from each other s insights. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. "

Spis treści

Foreword  1. The real puzzle of the self-torturer: uncovering a new dimension of instrumental rationality  2. Rationality with respect to people, places, and times  3. Action as a form of temporal unity: on Anscombe’s Intention  4. Synchronic requirements and diachronic permissions  5. The courage of conviction  6. Continuing on  7. Memory, belief and time  8. A defense of objectivism about evidential support  9. Don’t stop believing  10. Understanding Conditionalization  11. Risk, rationality and expected utility theory  12. Costs of abandoning the Sure-Thing Principle  13. Revisiting Risk and Rationality: a reply to Pettigrew and Briggs