THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF BELIEF AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DEGREES OF BELIEF

Abstract

V-xONSIDER two questions. What propo? sitions are epistemically rational for us to be? lieve? And, with what confidence is it epistemically rational for us to believe a proposition? Answering the first of these questions re? quires an epistemology of belief, answering the second an epistemology of degrees of be? lief. The two kinds of accounts would seem to be close cousins, the problems they encoun? ter and the range of options for solving them being essentially the same. An account of ra? tional degrees of belief simply adopts a more fine-grained approach to doxastic attitudes than does an account of rational beliefs. The