Knowledge and inquiry
Subtitle: essays on the pragmatism of Isaac Levi
By: edited by Erik Olsson.
Contributors: Olsson, Erik J.
Series: Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Levi, Isaac, 1930-; Pragmatism -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Isaac Levi and his pragmatist lineage / Cheryl Misak; title: Is pragmatist truth irrelevant to inquiry? / Andre Fuhrmann; title: The knowledge business / Philip Kitcher; title: Infallibility and incorrigibility / Bengt Hansson; title: Why inconsistency is not hell : making room for inconsistency in science / Otavio Bueno; title: Levi on risk / Nils-Eric Sahlin; title: Vexed convexity / Henry E. Kyburg; title: Levi's chances / H. Mellor; title: Isaac Levi's potentially surprising epistemological picture / Wolfgang Spohn; title: Isaac Levi on abduction / Maurice Pagnucco; title: Potential answers to what question? / Erik J. Olsson; title: Levi and the lottery / Erik J. Olsson; title: The value of truth and the value of information : on Isaac Levi's epistemology / Hans Rott; title: Decision-theoretic contraction and sequential change / Horacio Arlo Costa; title: Deciding what you know / Mark Kaplan; title: Levi's ideals / Sven Ove Hansson; title: The mind we do not change / Wolfram Hinzen; title: Psychoanalysis as technology / Akeel Bilgrami; title: Levi on money pumps and diachronic Dutch books / Wlodek Rabinowicz; title: Levi on the reality of dispositions / Johannes Persson; title: Replies / Isaac Levi.