The price of doubt - Nathan, N. M. L. (London ; New York : Routledge, 2001)
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements ix --Introduction 1 --I Arguments for ignorance and the negation test 3 -- (1) Inductive ignorance 4 -- (2) The negation test 6 -- (3) Prospectus 16 --II Demonic arguments 19 -- (1) The soundness of demonic arguments 20 -- (2) The negation test 24 -- (2.1) ENTAILMENT and consensus 26 -- (2.2) INCOHERENCE 28 -- (2.3) Excluding the conjunct 29 --III Regressive arguments 31 -- (1) The soundness of regressive arguments 31 -- (1.1) Evidentialist arguments 32 -- (1.2) Semi-evidentialist arguments 34 -- (1.2.1) Deductivism 35 -- (1.2.2) Double regression 36 -- (2) The negation test 39 -- (2.1) Knowledge without evidence 40 -- (2.2) Consensual propositions 43 --IV Evidence-or-acquaintance arguments 50 -- (1) The objectivity of values 51 -- (1.1) Evaluative truth 51 -- (1.2) Dynamic unity 55 -- (2) Theism 63 -- (2.1) Evil 64 -- (2.2) Explanatory exclusion 67 --V Anti-idealism 71 -- (1) Idealism and Anti-idealism 72 -- (2) Anti-idealism: an evidence-or-acquaintance argument 75 -- (3) The negation test 87 --VI Arguments against justified belief 93 -- (1) Volitionally justified belief 95 -- (2) Arguments against volitionally justified belief 100 -- (3) The negation test 103 --VII From rational action to rational belief 108 -- (1) Rational action 109 -- (2) Infinite regression 113 -- (3) Belief shortage 119 --VIII Arguments against rational belief 124 -- (1) Continuing to believe 125 -- (2) Starting to believe 128 -- (3) Summary 134 --IX The affirmation test 137 --Appendix: Semantic objections to demonic arguments 142 --Notes 149 -- Works cited 169 -- Index 174.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Belief and doubt