New Essays on Belief: Constitution, Content and Structure - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349439223 ISBN 13: 9781349439225

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, USA Tim Bayne, University of Manchester, UK Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland, USA Erin Eaker, University of Maryland, USA Anandi Hattiangadi, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, UK Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire, UK Dale Jacquette, University of Bern, Switzerland Søren Harnow Klausen, University of Southern Denmark Robert J. Matthews, Rutgers University, USA Rik Peels, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Eric Schwitzgebel, The University of California, Riverside, USA

Review:

"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 young thinkers, New Essays on Belief offers readers the chance to gain uniquely nuanced picture of state-of-the-art thinking in this exciting area of philosophical research." - Tamar Szabo Gendler, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Chair, Yale University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1349439223
• ISBN 13: 9781349439225
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Nottelmann N.