The Enterprise of Knowledge – Essay on Knowledcredal Probability & Chance (Paper): Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability and Chance - Softcover

Levi, I

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026262043X ISBN 13: 9780262620437

Publisher: MIT Press, 1983

Synopsis

This major work challenges some widely held positions in epistemology - those of Peirce and Popper on the one hand and those of Quine and Kuhn on the other. The author contends that epistemological infallibilism is compatible with his view that knowledge evolves through a process of updating and correcting. Knowledge is regarded as a resource for decision and inquiry, a standard for serious possibility.

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Review

" A highly original treatment of the subject of the revision of knowledge .... This is a valuable work in its field, and as such belongs in all libraries." - "Choice" " Its importance lies in its new emphasis on a general, credal probability and in its forward-looking, decision-oriented view of knowledge. It leads us further along the road toward a philosphically satisfying, yet usable, appreciation of scientific method: an appreciation that could do much in a really practical way to assist the development of science and technology." - "Nature" & quot; A highly original treatment of the subject of the revision of knowledge .... This is a valuable work in its field, and as such belongs in all libraries.& quot; - Choice & quot; Its importance lies in its new emphasis on a general, credal probability and in its forward-looking, decision-oriented view of knowledge. It leads us further along the road toward a philosphically satisfying, yet usable, appreciation of scientific method: an appreciation that could do much in a really practical way to assist the development of science and technology.& quot; - Nature "A highly original treatment of the subject of the revision of knowledge .... This is a valuable work in its field, and as such belongs in all libraries."--"Choice" "Its importance lies in its new emphasis on a general, credal probability and in its forward-looking, decision-oriented view of knowledge. It leads us further along the road toward a philosphically satisfying, yet usable, appreciation of scientific method: an appreciation that could do much in a really practical way to assist the development of science and technology."--"Nature"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026262043X
• ISBN 13: 9780262620437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 479