A normatively adequate credal reductivism
pp. 2301-2313
Abstract
It is a prevalent, if not popular, thesis in the metaphysics of belief that facts about an agent’s beliefs depend entirely upon facts about that agent’s underlying credal state. Call this thesis ‘credal reductivism’ and any view that endorses this thesis a ‘credal reductivist view’. An adequate credal reductivist view will accurately predict both when belief occurs and which beliefs are held appropriately, on the basis of credal facts alone. Several well-known—and some lesser known—objections to credal reductivism turn on the inability of standard credal reductivist views to get the latter, normative, results right. This paper presents and defends a novel credal reductivist view according to which belief is a type of “imprecise credence” that escapes these objections by including an extreme credence of 1.
Publication details
Published in:
(2014) Synthese 191 (10).
Pages: 2301-2313
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0402-9
Full citation:
Dallmann Justin M. (2014) „A normatively adequate credal reductivism“. Synthese 191 (10), 2301–2313.