New essays on belief : constitution, content, and structure / edited by Nikolaj Nottelmann, University of Southern Denmark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nottelmann, Nikolaj, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

What are beliefs and what roles do they play in our behavioral and cognitive economies? Those questions are central issues not only for epistemology, but also for philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and philosophy of religion, to mention only a few fields. The authors in this volume of specially commissioned essays address them from a variety of perspectives, drawing on important classical and contemporary work on mental content, the nature of intentionality, the psychology of delusions, the role of character traits, the moral status of doxastic attitudes, and a range of other topics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Belief Metaphysics: The Basic Questions / Nikolaj Nottelmann Nottelmann, Nikolaj 9

2 Belief: A Study of Form, Content, and Reference / Robert Audi Audi, Robert 30

3 Why Believe in Contentless Beliefs? / Daniel D. Hutto Hutto, Daniel D. 55

4 A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box / Eric Schwitzgebel Schwitzgebel, Eric 75

5 Belief and Belief's Penumbra / Robert J. Matthews Matthews, Robert J. 100

6 Belief and Its Bedfellows / Tim Bayne Bayne, Tim, Anandi Hattiangadi Hattiangadi, Anandi 124

7 On Knowing Your Own Beliefs: A Representationalist Account / Peter Carruthers Carruthers, Peter 145

8 Keeping Attitude Metaphysics out of Attitude Ascription Semantics (and Vice Versa) / Erin Baker Baker, Erin 166

9 Losing Belief, While Keeping up the Attitudes: The Case for Cognitive Phenomenology / Søren Harnow Klausen Klausen, Søren Harnow 188

10 Belief State Intensity / Dale Jacquette Jacquette, Dale 209

11 Some Metaphysical Implications of a Credible Ethics of Belief / Nikolaj Nottelmann Nottelmann, Nikolaj, Rik Peels Peels, Rik 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137026514

1137026510

OCLC:

844728621