Philosophy of the Social Sciences: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and influential scholars in the field. They deal with questions such as what drew them towards the area; how they view their own contribution, and what the future of the social sciences looks like.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and ...
This book has grown out of a conference on "Degrees of Belief" that was held at the University of Konstanz in July 2004, organised by Luc Bovens, Wolfgang Spohn, and the editors. The event was supported by the German Research Fo- dation (DFG), the Philosophy, Probability, and Modeling (PPM) Group, and the CenterforJuniorResearchFellows(since2008: Zukunftskolleg)attheUniversityof Konstanz. The PPM Group itself - of which the editors were members at the time - was sponsored by a So a Kovalevskaja Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and...
This book has grown out of a conference on "Degrees of Belief" that was held at the University of Konstanz in July 2004, organised by Luc Bovens, Wolf...
The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we are more certain of some things than of others. Various theories try to give accounts of how measures of this confidence do or ought to behave, both as far as the internal mental consistency of the agent as well as his betting, or other, behaviour is concerned.
This anthology is the first book to give a balanced overview of these theories. It also explicitly relates these debates to more traditional concerns of the philosophy of language and mind, and epistemic logic, namely how belief simpliciter does or ought to...
The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we are more certain of some things than of others. Various theories try to g...
Ronald Dworkin ist einer der herausragenden Philosophen, dessen Arbeiten zum Egalitarismus nur noch durch das Werk von John Rawls übertroffen werden. Mit Was ist Gleichheit? liegen nun zentrale Texte Dworkins erstmals in deutscher Sprache vor. Sie entwickeln eine Theorie der Ressourcengleichheit, der zufolge eine Gesellschaft dann gerecht ist, wenn in ihr alle Ressourcen gleich verteilt sind. Dies bedeutet für Dworkin nicht, daß alle Menschen das gleiche Niveau an Wohlstand oder Lebenszufriedenheit erlangen können oder daß dies überhaupt wünschenswert wäre. Zwar sollte ein Staat...
Ronald Dworkin ist einer der herausragenden Philosophen, dessen Arbeiten zum Egalitarismus nur noch durch das Werk von John Rawls übertroffen werden....
