Linguistique de l’écrit

Revue internationale en libre accès

Livre | Chapitre

178064

The doxastic zoo

Pascal Engel

pp. 297-316

Résumé

The doxastic zoo contains many animals: belief, acceptance, belief in, belief that, certainty, conjecture, guess, conviction, denial, disbelief in, disbelief that, judgment, commitment, etc. It also contains belief's "strange bedfellows": credences, partial beliefs, tacit beliefs, subdoxastic states, creedal feelings, feelings of knowing, in-between believings, pathological beliefs, phobias, aliefs, delusions, biases, besires. How to order the zoo? I propose to distinguish doxastic attitudes from non-doxastic epistemic attitudes. The criterion is the existence of correctness conditions. Most bedfellows do not have such normative conditions. So they should not be allowed in the Doxastic Club.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Coliva Annalisa, Leonardi Paolo, Moruzzi Sebastiano (2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 297-316

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_14

Citation complète:

Engel Pascal, 2018, The doxastic zoo. In A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history (297-316). Dordrecht, Springer.