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394 Book Reviews language acquisition. Far from being a mere platitude, the account is presented as being incompatible with (or at least evidence against) the introspectionist account of self-knowledge. It seems that the division between the philosophi- cal and the empirical allows for some interplay after all. In a short review it is only possible to scratch the surface of such a long and ambitious book. Bennett and Hacker do expose a great deal of unclarity in the writings of several leading neuroscientists, and do so in a way that displays a serious knowledge of the field. It also represents a challenge to many orthodox philosophical views and is always both provocative and entertaining. Department of Philosophy joel smith University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ doi:10 .1093 /mind/fzi391 Bayesian Epistemology, by Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 . Pp. ix + 159 . H/b £37 .50 , P/b £16 .99 . This short — but impressively rich — book breaks new ground in the applica- tion of advanced methods in Bayesian probabilistic modelling to various well- known and important problems in contemporary epistemology and philoso- phy of science. This is, in many
Mind – Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2005
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