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61Is scientific theory-commitment doxastic or practical?Synthese 137 (3). 2003.Associated with Bayesianism is the claim that insofar as thereis anything like scientific theory-commitment, it is not a doxastic commitment to the truth of the theory or any proposition involving the theory, but is rather an essentiallypractical commitment to behaving in accordance with a theory. While there are a number of a priori reasons to think that this should be true, there is stronga posteriori reason to think that it is not in fact true of current scientific practice.After outlining a …Read more
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14The• Goods and the Motivation of BelievingIn Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic Value, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 139--62. 2009.
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10Review of Steven Luper (ed.), The Skeptics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (11). 2004.
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Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |