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Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible
Belief truth dispositionalism Ruth Barcan Marcus Kripke's puzzle about belief creencia verdad disposicionalismo Ruth Barcan Marcus la paradoja de Kripke acerca de las creencias
2016/6/15
I review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discus...
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I I will first present the AGM theory of belief revision (Alchourrón & G...
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I, I have first presented the AGM theory of belief revision. Then I have...
A Deductive Justification for Inductive Belief
induction justification deduction knowledge Gettier Goodman Hume
2016/6/13
In this paper, we utilize a disjunction of familiar inductive beliefs—the disjunction being deductively valid—to show that we have inductive knowledge. While this is in itself philosophically signific...
Reasons for (prior) belief in Bayesian epistemology
Bayesian epistemology prior probabilities credences reasons for belief principle of insufficient reason belief revision belief formation
2016/6/12
Bayesian epistemology tells us how we should move from prior to posterior beliefs in light of new evidence or information, but says little about where our prior beliefs come from. It offers few resour...
“Bullshit”, as Harry Frankfurt writes in his recent book, On Bullshit, is a communication that pretends to be genuinely informative, but really is not. The person who talks bullshit, Frankfurt holds, ...
BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD AND REDISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS
BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD REDISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS
2014/3/13
International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate...
Is a belief that one will succeed necessary for an intention? It is argued that the question has traditionally been badly posed, framed as it is in terms of all-out belief. We need instead to ask abou...
The concepts of justified, warranted, and epistemically rational belief, along with the notion of knowledge, form the core subject matter of epistemology. Despite their centrality, these concepts are ...
The Great Connexion: Hume's Metaphysical Logic Of Belief-Constructed Causation
Hume Metaphysical Logic
2009/12/3
It is a commonplace that Hume the philosopher1 is essentially Hume the sceptic.
Hume deploys his skeptical arguments in both epistemology and ethics.
In the epistemological context, Hume argues that...
Is Personal Insecurity a Cause of Cross-National Differences in the Intensity of Religious Belief?
Cross-National Religious Belief
2009/7/10
The cause of cross-national differences in individual-level religiosity has a rich history of scholarly debate rooted in observations of an apparent decline in religiosity in the modern era. Numerous ...
One might think that doing philosophy requires that one be open to change one’s mind. One might also think that keeping an open mind is not compatible with having a serious religious commitment, to Ch...
Belief, which is our subject to-day, is the central problem in the analysis of mind. Believing seems the most "mental" thing we do, the thing most remote from what is done by mere matter. The whole in...
Although a strict dichotomy between facts and values is no longer accepted, less attention has been paid to the roles values should play in our acceptance of factual statements, or scientific descript...
Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and the Problem of Belief Individuation
Coherence coherence measures Bovens Fitelson
2008/4/22
Coherentism in epistemology has long suffered from lack of formal and quantitative explication of the notion of coherence. One might hope that such probabilistic accounts of coherence as those propose...