New Essays on Belief Constitution, Content and Structure [Hardcover]

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right. This volume comprises 11 original essays on belief written by a range of the best authors in the field.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Nikolaj Nottelmann 1. Belief Metaphysics  The Basic Questions; Nikolaj Nottelmann 2. Belief: A Study of Form, Content, and Reference; Robert Audi 3. Why Believe in Contentless Beliefs?; Daniel D. Hutto 4. A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box; Eric Schwitzgebel 5. Beliefs and Belief's Penumbra; Robert J. Matthews 6. Belief and Its Bedfellows; Tim Bayne and Anandi Hattiangadi 7. On Knowing Your Own Beliefs: A Representationalist Account; Peter Carruthers 8. Keeping Attitude Metaphysics out of Attitude Ascription Semantics (and Vice Versa); Erin Eaker 9. Losing Belief, While Keeping up the Attitudes: The Case for Cognitive Phenomenology; S?ren Harnow Klausen 10. Belief State Intensity; Dale Jacquette 11. Some Metaphysical Implications of a Credible Ethics of Belief; Nikolaj Nottelmann & Rik Peels Index

Questions about the character and role of belief - what are beliefs, and what role do they play in our cognitive and behavioral economies? - are central issues not only for epistemology, but also for philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and philosophy of religion, among other fields. New Essays on Belief: Constitution, Content and Structure brings together a set of specially-commissioned essays on this important and timely topic. The authors in this excellent volume address these concerns from a variety of perspectives, drawing on important classical and contemporary work on the semantics of propositional attitudes, the nature of delusions, the role of character traits, the moral status of doxastic attitudes, and a range of other topics. By bringing together both established authors and a new generation of youl32