An Essay on Belief and Acceptance

by L. Jonathan Cohen

Book Overview

In this incisive new book one of Britain's most eminent philosophers explores the often-overlooked tension between voluntariness and involuntariness in human cognition. He seeks to counter the widespread tendency for analytic epistemology to be dominated by the concept of belief. Is scientific knowledge properly conceived as being embodied, at its best, in a passive feeling of belief or in an active policy of acceptance? Should a jury's verdict declare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198236042
• ISBN13: 9780198236047
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"