Accommodating unconscious beliefs
More often than not, theories of belief and of belief ascription restrict themselves to conscious beliefs, thus obliterating a vast part of our mental life and offering extremely incomplete, unrealistic theories. Indeed, conscious beliefs are the exception, not the rule, as far as human doxastic sta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
2011-05-01
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| Series: | Princípios |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/988 |
| Summary: | More often than not, theories of belief and of belief ascription restrict themselves to conscious beliefs, thus obliterating a vast part of our mental life and offering extremely incomplete, unrealistic theories. Indeed, conscious beliefs are the exception, not the rule, as far as human doxastic states are concerned, and a naturalistic, realistic theory of knowledge that aspires to completeness has to take unconscious beliefs into consideration. This paper is the elaboration of such a theory of belief. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-8694 1983-2109 |