The Review Paradox. A Note on the Diachronic Costs of Not Closing Rational Belief Under Conjunction

Leitgeb, Hannes (2014): The Review Paradox. A Note on the Diachronic Costs of Not Closing Rational Belief Under Conjunction. In: Nous, Vol. 48, No. 4: pp. 781-793

Abstract

We argue that giving up on the closure of rational belief under conjunction comes with a substantial price. Either rational belief is closed under conjunction, or else the epistemology of belief has a serious diachronic deficit over and above the synchronic failures of conjunctive closure. The argument for this, which can be viewed as a sequel to the preface paradox, is called the review paradox; it is presented in four distinct, but closely related versions.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Preprint
• Faculties: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP); Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Epistemology
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy
• Language: English