Quotational and other opaque belief reports

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Belief Reports

scholarly journals Concept originalism, reference-shift and belief reports

Synthese ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 195 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-285
Author(s):  
Seyed N. Mousavian ◽  
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
Keyword(s):  
Belief Reports

scholarly journals Berg on Belief Reports

Philosophia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Everett
Keyword(s):  
Belief Reports

Biases in belief reports

2021 ◽  
pp. 102458
Author(s):  
Dominik Folli ◽  
Irenaeus Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Belief Reports

scholarly journals Patterns, noise, and Beliefs

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-51
Author(s):  
Lajos Ludovic Brons
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Gettier Cases ◽  
Frege’S Puzzle ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
Belief Reports ◽  
Frege's Puzzle ◽  
Principle Of Charity

In “Real Patterns” Daniel Dennett developed an argument about the reality of beliefs on the basis of an analogy with patterns and noise. Here I develop Dennett’s analogy into an argument for descriptivism, the view that belief reports do no specify belief contents but merely describe what someone believes, and show that this view is also supported by empirical evidence. No description can do justice to the richness and specificity or “noisiness” of what someone believes, and the same belief can be described by different sentences or propositions (which is illustrated by Dennett’s analogy, some Gettier cases, and Frege’s puzzle), but in some contexts some of these competing descriptions are misleading or even false. Faithful (or truthful) description must be guided by a principle (or principles) related to the principle of charity: belief descriptions should not attribute irrationality to the believer or have other kinds of “deviant” implications.

scholarly journals The pragmatics of transparent belief reports

Analysis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kauppinen
Keyword(s):  
Belief Reports
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