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Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science

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Editors:
  1. Erik J. Olsson

    1. Dept. Philosophy, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

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  2. Sebastian Enqvist

    1. Dept. Philosophy, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

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  • The only up-to-date book that addresses belief revision in the context of scientific enquiry Provides a number of new perspectives that are likely to steer research in new directions Establishes new connections between areas previously assumed unrelated, eg. belief revision and conceptual spaces.

Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 21)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. AGM Theory and Artificial Intelligence

    • Raúl Carnota, Ricardo Rodríguez
    Pages 1-42

  3. Changing the Scientific Corpus

    • Sven Ove Hansson
    Pages 43-58

  4. Idealizations, Intertheory Explanations and Conditionals

    • Hans Rott
    Pages 59-75

  5. Abductive Belief Revision in Science

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 77-104

  6. A Structuralist Framework for the Logic of Theory Change

    • Sebastian Enqvist
    Pages 105-135

  7. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories

    • Peter Gärdenfors, Frank Zenker
    Pages 137-153

  8. A Note on Theory Change and Belief Revision

    • Bengt Hansson
    Pages 155-162

  9. Social Norms, Rational Choice and Belief Change

    • Horacio Arló-Costa, Arthur Paul Pedersen
    Pages 163-212

  10. Rational Belief Changes for Collective Agents

    • David Westlund
    Pages 213-224

  11. The Best of All PossibleWorlds: Where Interrogative Games Meet Research Agendas

    • Emmanuel Genot
    Pages 225-252

  12. Functional vs. Relational Approaches to Belief Revision

    • Erik J. Olsson
    Pages 253-268

  13. Knowledge as True Belief

    • Isaac Levi
    Pages 269-302

  14. Reasoning About Belief Revision

    • Caroline Semmling, Heinrich Wansing
    Pages 303-328

  15. Changing Minds About Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion

    • Paul Thagard, Scott Findlay
    Pages 329-345

  16. Rationality in Flux – Formal Representations of Methodological Change

    • Jonas Nilsson, Sten Lindström
    Pages 347-356

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 357-359
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About this book

Belief revision theory and philosophy of science both aspire to shed light on the dynamics of knowledge – on how our view of the world changes (typically) in the light of new evidence. Yet these two areas of research have long seemed strangely detached from each other, as witnessed by the small number of cross-references and researchers working in both domains. One may speculate as to what has brought about this surprising, and perhaps unfortunate, state of affairs. One factor may be that while belief revision theory has traditionally been pursued in a bottom- up manner, focusing on the endeavors of single inquirers, philosophers of science, inspired by logical empiricism, have tended to be more interested in science as a multi-agent or agent-independent phenomenon.

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"[...] offers a rich and up-to-date inventory of contributions, which cover almost all the issues on the border between AGM and philosophy of science, laying the bases for a further, fruitful exploration of this exciting field of research."

Gustavo Cevolani (University of Bologna, Italy) and Roberto Festa (University of Trieste, Italy)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Philosophy, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

    Erik J. Olsson, Sebastian Enqvist

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science

  • Editors: Erik J. Olsson, Sebastian Enqvist

  • Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9609-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9608-1Published: 03 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3400-5Published: 02 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9609-8Published: 27 October 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9775

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 359

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic

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