Conviction Formation Theory

A cycle of essays about what can carry thinking and action amid competing convictions and standards, without certainty or a final foundation.

I. Forming And Revising Convictions

A first cycle of essays examining how convictions form, how inquiry can reorganize them, and how finite agents participate without fully controlling what becomes convincing.

Conviction Formation

Questions, Possibilities, And Formal Systems

Participation

II. Examining Constraint

A second cycle of essays examining logic, probability, and causality, asking what makes their conclusions compelling, what they depend on, and how far their authority reaches.

Recursive Examination

Sources Of Logical Constraint

Sources Of Constraint In Probability Theory And Bayesian Updating

Sources Of Constraint In Pearl's Theory Of Causality

Refinement, Pluralism, And What Remains