Doxasticism: Belief and the information-responsiveness of mind
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Audi, Robert. (2019). Doxasticism: Belief and the information-responsiveness of mind. Episteme. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.53
Authors | Audi, Robert |
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Abstract | This paper concerns a problem that has received insufficient analysis in the philosophical literature so far: the conditions under which an information-bearing state – say a perception or recollection – yields belief. The paper distinguishes between belief and a psychological property easily conflated with belief, illustrates the tendency of philosophers to overlook this distinction, and offers a positive conception of the mind's information-responsiveness that requires far less belief-formation – and far less formation of other propositional attitudes – than has been commonly supposed to be produced by perception and other experiences. This conception is clarified by a partial sketch of the natural economy of mind. The paper then considers two important questions the conception raises. Does it force us to abandon the venerable belief-desire conception of intentional action, and does it require expanding the domain of intellectual responsibility and thereby our conception of epistemic virtue? |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Episteme |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 1742-3600 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.53 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85060979975 |
Page range | 1 - 21 |
Research Group | Dianoia Institute of Philosophy |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8q5qy/doxasticism-belief-and-the-information-responsiveness-of-mind
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