Degrees of Belief

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Huber, Franz (Editor), Schmidt-Petri, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 342
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; Mathematical statistics.; Artificial intelligence.; Probabilities.; Philosophy of Science.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.

The idea that belief comes in degrees is based on the observation that we are more certain of some things than of others. Various theories try to give accounts of how measures of this confidence do or ought to behave, both as far as the internal mental consistency of the agent as well as his betting...