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.
Author(s): Erik J. Olsson, Sebastian Enqvist (eds.)
Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 21
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 380
Tags: Philosophy of Science; Logic
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
AGM Theory and Artificial Intelligence....Pages 1-42
Changing the Scientific Corpus....Pages 43-58
Idealizations, Intertheory Explanations and Conditionals....Pages 59-75
Abductive Belief Revision in Science....Pages 77-104
A Structuralist Framework for the Logic of Theory Change....Pages 105-135
Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories....Pages 137-153
A Note on Theory Change and Belief Revision....Pages 155-162
Social Norms, Rational Choice and Belief Change....Pages 163-212
Rational Belief Changes for Collective Agents....Pages 213-224
The Best of All PossibleWorlds: Where Interrogative Games Meet Research Agendas....Pages 225-252
Functional vs. Relational Approaches to Belief Revision....Pages 253-268
Knowledge as True Belief....Pages 269-302
Reasoning About Belief Revision....Pages 303-328
Changing Minds About Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion....Pages 329-345
Rationality in Flux – Formal Representations of Methodological Change....Pages 347-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-359