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This book gives a general theory of rational belief. Although it can be read by itself, is a sequel to the author's previous book The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017). It takes the general conception of rationality that was defended in that earlier book, and combines it with an account of the varieties of belief, and of what it is for these beliefs to count as

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This book presupposes thorough grounding in the intricacies of contemporary epistemology, to which it is a significant contribution. * Choice *

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Ralph Wedgwood is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was educated at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, at King's College London, and at Cornell University, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Merton College, University of Oxford, before moving to California in 2012. His primary interests are in epistemology and ethics (including metaethics, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics). He has published more than sixty articles and two previous books, The Nature of Normativity (Oxford, 2007) and The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017).

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