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It is widely held that beliefs are rational if they are supported by our evidence.evidence. And credences are rational if they follow the probability axioms (e.g. a credence should never be greater than 1 in any event) and are revised in accordance with Bayes’ rule.rule.
Chignell, Andrew (2018) The ethics of belief, sect. 4, March 5, in Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Epistemology is the study of how people should formbeliefs and credences about the nature of the world. Beliefs and credences are purely evaluative attitudes: they are simply about the way that we think the world is. A person might believe that it will rain, for example, even though they hope that it will not.
Chignell, Andrew (2018) The ethics of belief, sect. 4, March 5, in Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, sect. 4..
Chignell, Andrew (2016)(2018) The ethics of belief, in Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, sect. 4.
Chignell, Andrew. 2016.Andrew (2016) The ethics of belief. In, in Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, sect. 4.
assessing and assimilating evidence | Bayesian epistemology | decision theory | epistemic humility | rationality
Further reading
Steup, Matthias & Ram Neta (2005) Epistemology, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, December 14 (updated 11 April 2020).