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Abstract
With his Humean thesis on belief, Leitgeb (2015) seeks to say how
beliefs and credences ought to interact with one another. To argue for
this thesis, he enumerates the roles beliefs must play and the
properties they must have if they are to play them, together with norms
that beliefs and credences intuitively must satisfy. He then argues that
beliefs can play these roles and satisfy these norms if, and only if,
they are related to credences in the way set out in the Humean thesis. I
begin by raising questions about the roles that Leitgeb takes beliefs
to play and the properties he thinks they must have if they are to play
them successfully. After that, I question the assumption that, if there
are categorical doxastic states at all, then there is just one kind of them—to wit, beliefs—such that the states of that kind must play all of these roles and conform to all of these norms. Instead, I will suggest, if there are categorical doxastic states, there may be many different kinds of such state such that, for each kind, the states of that type play some of the roles Leitgeb takes belief to play and each of which satisfies some
of the norms he lists. As I will argue, the usual reasons for positing
categorical doxastic states alongside credences all tell equally in
favour of accepting a plurality of kinds of them. This is the thesis I
dub pluralism about belief states.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 187-204 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume |
Volume | 89 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 18 Jun 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2015 |
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EUT: Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications
Pettigrew, R. G. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/13 → 1/01/17
Project: Research