Tim Bayne (Oxford): Belief and its bedfellows

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Abstract:

This paper attempts to draw some lessons about the nature of belief from considerations concerning beliefs’ ‘bedfellows’: states that are not paradigmatic beliefs but are belief-like in certain important respects. I examine the merits of various proposals about how to categorize such states, before turning to the question of what such states might be able to teach us concerning the nature of belief, the propositional attitudes, and mental states more generally.