Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality

Author:   Julia Staffel (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   228
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
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Author:   Julia Staffel (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9780198833710


ISBN 10:   0198833717
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: De-Idealizing Bayesianism 3: Approximation Measures 4: Why Approximate Coherence? The Dutch Book Justification 5: Why Approximate Coherence? The Accuracy Justification 6: Approximating Ideal Rationality with Multiple Norms 7: Evaluating Credence Change 8: A Small Piece of the Puzzle 9: How Do Beliefs Simplify Reasoning? 10: Matters To Be Settled References

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I argue that for beliefs to properly play their simplifying role, reasoning with beliefs must inevitably lead to small degrees of incoherence among the agent's attitudes. There are many interesting questions about how to think of rationality as a graded notion that Unsettled Thoughts leaves open, and I point out a slew of them in Chap. 10. My hope is that others will join forces with me and continue the investigation of why humans should strive to be more rational. * Julia Staffel, Philosophical Studies *


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Julia Staffel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Southern California in 2013. Before joining USC, she studied Philosophy and Linguistics at Humboldt University in Berlin and at Brown University. She mainly works in the areas of traditional and formal epistemology, with a focus on questions about rationality and reasoning. She is especially interested in exploring how thinkers ought to manage non-ideal conditions, such as their own irrationality, mistakes, time constraints, and other hardships.

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