This paper introduces a new argument against Richard Foley’s threshold view of belief. His view is based on the Lockean Thesis (LT) and the Rational Threshold Thesis (RTT). The argument introduced here shows that the views derived from the LT and the RTT violate the safety condition on knowledge in way that threatens the LT and/or the RTT
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 201...
This paper defends a principle I call Equal Treatment, according to which the rationality of a belie...
A theory of rational belief should get the cases right. It should also reach its verdicts using the ...
This paper introduces a new argument against Richard Foley’s threshold view of belief. His view is ...
According to the Rational Threshold View, a rational agent believes p if and only if her credence in...
We examine two leading theories of rational belief, the Lockean view and the explanationist view. Th...
This essay develops a joint theory of rational (all-or-nothing) belief and degrees of belief. The th...
The Lockean Thesis says that you must believe p iff you’re sufficiently confident of it. On some ver...
The Lockean Thesis says that you must believe p iff you’re sufficiently confident of it. On some ver...
One of the deepest ideological divides in contemporary epistemology concerns the relative importance...
In a penetrating investigation of the relationship between belief and quantitative degrees of confid...
An influential proposal is that knowledge involves safe belief. A belief is safe, in the relevant se...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 201...
This paper defends a principle I call Equal Treatment, according to which the rationality of a belie...
A theory of rational belief should get the cases right. It should also reach its verdicts using the ...
This paper introduces a new argument against Richard Foley’s threshold view of belief. His view is ...
According to the Rational Threshold View, a rational agent believes p if and only if her credence in...
We examine two leading theories of rational belief, the Lockean view and the explanationist view. Th...
This essay develops a joint theory of rational (all-or-nothing) belief and degrees of belief. The th...
The Lockean Thesis says that you must believe p iff you’re sufficiently confident of it. On some ver...
The Lockean Thesis says that you must believe p iff you’re sufficiently confident of it. On some ver...
One of the deepest ideological divides in contemporary epistemology concerns the relative importance...
In a penetrating investigation of the relationship between belief and quantitative degrees of confid...
An influential proposal is that knowledge involves safe belief. A belief is safe, in the relevant se...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 201...
This paper defends a principle I call Equal Treatment, according to which the rationality of a belie...
A theory of rational belief should get the cases right. It should also reach its verdicts using the ...