Believing and Accepting

(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 evid...

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其他作者: Engel, Pascal, 1954-...., philosophe (Directeur de la publication)
格式: Livre numérique
語言:Anglais
出版: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
叢編:Philosophical Studies Series 83
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Edition sous un autre format:• Believing and Accepting, Texte imprimé, 9789401057820
• Believing and accepting, edited by Pascal Engel,..., 2000, Dordrecht, Kluwer academic publishers, 1 vol. (298 p.), Philosophical studies series, 0-7923-6238-1
• Believing and Accepting, Texte imprimé, 9789401140430
書本目錄:
  • Introduction: the Varieties of Belief and Acceptance
  • The Possibility of Acceptance Without Belief
  • Why Acceptance that P Does Not Entail Belief that P
  • Moore's Paradox
  • On Moore's Paradox
  • On Wanting to Believe
  • Choosing to Intend, Wanting to Believe
  • Transformations of Belief
  • Belief and Acceptance: A Logical Point of View
  • Scientific Objectivity and the Aims of Belief
  • Belief and Acceptance Revisited
  • Commitments Defined with the Help of Public Concepts
  • Concepts, Beliefs and Metarepresentations
  • The Simulation of Belief.