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Belief and Credence: A Field Guide
Belief and Credence: A Field Guide
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104709
- ISBN
- 9798293888665
- DDC
- 100
- 서명/저자
- Belief and Credence: A Field Guide
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 191 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Strevens, Michael.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Thinkers like us have a "take" on the world: opinions concerning how things are (or might be). These opinions guide our subsequent reasoning and behavior, and are the locus of rational evaluation. But opinion, it would seem, comes in at least two different flavors. Sometimes, to explain why a person thinks or acts the way they do, we appeal to what that person believes. Belief is a binary attitude in the sense that, for a given claim, one can either believe or fail to believe it. In other cases, our explanations appeal to the person's levels of confidence-what philosophers sometimes call her "credences". Credence is a graded attitude, one that ranges from complete certainty that a given claim is false to complete certainty that the claim is true.Some of the biggest debates in epistemology over the last 30 years have, in some way or other, concerned the relationship between the norms that govern rational belief, on the one hand, and the norms that govern rational credence, on the other. These debates are intimately connected to debates about the relationship between so-called "traditional" epistemology, whose practitioners tend to theorize in terms of belief, and "formal" epistemology, whose practitioners tend to theorize in terms of credence. A central, unresolved question in such disputes is whether the roles of belief and credence are filled by one or two fundamentally different kinds of mental states.Questions about the relationship between belief and credence have been investigated primarily from the philosopher's armchair. While there has been a growing sense that such investigations would benefit from some fresh insights from our best philosophy and science of the mind, it hasn't been clear what kinds of insights might be relevant, and there has been very little work in this direction. My dissertation attempts to fill this gap. In it, I argue that belief and credence are two fundamentally different kinds of mental states, which can be distinguished by the kinds of reasoning processes they enter into. While both have a role to play in our mental economies, credences play a role that is much less central than many epistemologists have supposed. The upshot is a novel way of using these attitudes to explain and assess behavior-one built on more empirically realistic foundations.
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy
- 일반주제명
- Cognitive psychology
- 일반주제명
- Epistemology
- 키워드
- Belief
- 키워드
- Credence
- 키워드
- Reasoning
- 기타저자
- New York University Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aEpistemology
■653 ▼aBelief
■653 ▼aCredence
■653 ▼aDoxastic attitudes
■653 ▼aReasoning
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■71020▼aNew York University▼bPhilosophy.
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■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17358490▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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