Putting Logic in its Place : Formal Constraints in Rational Belief

Does logic help determine whether beliefs are rational? David Christensen argues that it does - but only once we understand beliefs as coming in degrees. Avoiding mathematical technicality, he explains why the degree-of-belief approach offers the key to understanding how logical arguments work. Philosophers working on formal epistemology and logic, as well as those in related areas of cognitive psychology and decision theory, will find much to stimulate them here.