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Believing and Accepting

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Editors:
  1. Pascal Engel

    1. Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, France

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 83)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: The Varieties of Belief and Acceptance

    • Pascal Engel
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Possibility of Acceptance Without Belief

    • D. S. Clarke
    Pages 31-53

  4. Why Acceptance that P Does Not Entail that P

    • Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 55-63

  5. Moore’s Paradox

    • Laurence Goldstein
    Pages 65-92

  6. On “Moore’s Paradox”

    • Robert Stalnaker
    Pages 93-100

  7. On Wanting to Believe

    • Michael Losonsky
    Pages 101-131

  8. Choosing to Intend, Deciding to Believe

    • Jean Pierre Dupuy
    Pages 133-143

  9. Transformations of Belief

    • Richard Jeffrey
    Pages 145-157

  10. Belief and Acceptance: A Logical Point of View

    • Jacques Dubucs
    Pages 159-177

  11. Scientific Objectivity and the Aims of Belief

    • Peter Railton
    Pages 179-208

  12. Acceptance and Belief Revisited

    • Keith Lehrer
    Pages 209-220

  13. Commitments Defined with the Help of Public Concepts

    • Andrew Woodfield
    Pages 221-242

  14. Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs

    • Dan Sperber
    Pages 243-266

  15. The Simulation of Belief

    • François Recanati
    Pages 267-298

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 299-302
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(1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct voluntary control. For instance I cannot believe at will that my trousers are on fire, or that the Dalai Lama is a living God, even if you pay me a large amount of money for believing such things. (2) Beliefs are nonnally shaped by evidence for what is believed, unless they are, in some sense, irrational. In general a belief is rational if it is proportioned to the degree of evidence that one has for its truth. In this sense, one often says that "beliefs aim at truth" . This is why it is, on the face of it, irrational to believe against the evidence that one has. A subject whose beliefs are not shaped by a concern for their truth, but by what she wants to be the case, is more or less a wishful thinker or a self-deceiver. (3) Beliefs are context independent, in the sense that at one time a subject believes something or does not believe it; she does not believe it relative to one context and not relative to another. For instance if I believe that Paris is a polluted city, I cannot believe that on Monday and not on Tuesday; that would be a change of belief, or a change of mind, but not a case of believing one thing in one context and another thing in another context. If I believe something, the belief is more or 4 less pennanent across various contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, France

    Pascal Engel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Believing and Accepting

  • Editors: Pascal Engel

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4042-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6238-8Published: 29 February 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5782-0Published: 16 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4042-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 302

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

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