Attitudinal strength as distance to withholding
| Autor: | Andrew T. Forcehimes |
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| Přispěvatelé: | School of Humanities |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Philosophy of mind
05 social sciences Metaphysics Face (sociological concept) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Degree (music) 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology Philosophy of language Philosophy 060302 philosophy Degree of Belief 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Philosophy [Humanities] Psychology Parity (mathematics) Degree of Desire |
| Popis: | How should we understand the relationship between binary belief and degree of belief? To answer this question, we should look to desire. Whatever relationship we think holds between desire and degree of desire should be used as our model for the relationship we think holds between belief and degree of belief. This parity pushes us towards an account that treats the binary attitudes as primary. But if we take binary beliefs as primary, we seem to face a serious problem. Binary beliefs are insufficiently discriminating. If we treat them as primary, we will lack the resources needed for fruitful theorizing. This problem can, I argue, be solved if we think of an agent’s degree of belief that p as reducible to her binary believing that p and the change in the apparent reasons that would be needed to get her to withhold. Ministry of Education (MOE) This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG62/19 (NS)). |
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