Negative Doxastic Voluntarism and the concept of belief
Negative Doxastic Voluntarism and the concept of belief
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消极唯意志主义与信仰概念
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Pragmatists have argued that doxastic or epistemic norms do not apply to beliefs, but to changes of beliefs; thus not to the holding or not-holding, but to the acquisition or removal of beliefs. Doxastic voluntarism generally claims that humans (sometimes or usually) acquire beliefs in a deliberate and controlled way. This paper introduces Negative Doxastic Voluntarism according to which there is a fundamental asymmetry in belief change: (i) humans tend to acquire beliefs more or less automatically and unreflectively, but (ii) they tend to withdraw beliefs in a controlled and deliberate way. I first present a variety of philosophical, empirical and logical arguments for Negative Doxastic Voluntarism. Then I raise two objections against it. First, the apparent asymmetry may result from a confusion of belief with other doxastic attitudes like assumption, supposition, hypothesis or opinion. Second, the apparent asymmetry seems to vanish if we focus on doxastic states rather than just beliefs. Some rejoinders and their consequences for the vague concept of belief are sketched.
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发表时间:
1989
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Logic of Theory Change
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作者:
G. Brewka
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G. Brewka
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2011
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Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science
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作者:
Caroline Semmling;H. Wansing
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H. Wansing
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2002
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Eric Schwitzgebel
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Eric Schwitzgebel
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1993
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D. Gilbert
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D. Gilbert
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1991
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I. Levi
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I. Levi