Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality

ISBN-13: 9780192864352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Department of Philosophy Richard (Professor of Philosophy

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Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. In 2008, he obtained his PhD in Mathematical Logic from this university. His thesis sought a foundation for mathematics in a theory of finite sets. From 2008 until 2011, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral at the university. He was appointed to a Lectureship in the same department in 2011, to a Readership in 2012, and to a Professorship in 2014. He has published four academic books and over forty journal articles, primarily focussing on structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics, rational choice theory for decisions involving preference change, greater access to higher education, and the accuracy-first programme in formal epistemology.