Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The Pragmatism of Isaac Levi
- 1 Isaac Levi and His Pragmatist Lineage
- 2 Is Pragmatist Truth Irrelevant to Inquiry?
- 3 The Knowledge Business
- 4 Infallibility and Incorrigibility
- 5 Why Inconsistency Is Not Hell: Making Room for Inconsistency in Science
- 6 Levi on Risk
- 7 Vexed Convexity
- 8 Levi's Chances
- 9 Isaac Levi's Potentially Surprising Epistemological Picture
- 10 Isaac Levi on Abduction
- 11 Potential Answers – To What Question?
- 12 Levi and the Lottery
- 13 The Value of Truth and the Value of Information: On Isaac Levi's Epistemology
- 14 Decision-Theoretic Contraction and Sequential Change
- 15 Deciding What You Know
- 16 Levi's Ideals
- 17 The Mind We do Not Change
- 18 Psychoanalysis as Technology
- 19 Levi on Money Pumps and Diachronic Dutch Books
- 20 Levi on the Reality of Dispositions
- 21 Replies
- Index
List of Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The Pragmatism of Isaac Levi
- 1 Isaac Levi and His Pragmatist Lineage
- 2 Is Pragmatist Truth Irrelevant to Inquiry?
- 3 The Knowledge Business
- 4 Infallibility and Incorrigibility
- 5 Why Inconsistency Is Not Hell: Making Room for Inconsistency in Science
- 6 Levi on Risk
- 7 Vexed Convexity
- 8 Levi's Chances
- 9 Isaac Levi's Potentially Surprising Epistemological Picture
- 10 Isaac Levi on Abduction
- 11 Potential Answers – To What Question?
- 12 Levi and the Lottery
- 13 The Value of Truth and the Value of Information: On Isaac Levi's Epistemology
- 14 Decision-Theoretic Contraction and Sequential Change
- 15 Deciding What You Know
- 16 Levi's Ideals
- 17 The Mind We do Not Change
- 18 Psychoanalysis as Technology
- 19 Levi on Money Pumps and Diachronic Dutch Books
- 20 Levi on the Reality of Dispositions
- 21 Replies
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Knowledge and InquiryEssays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006