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Belief - A Pragmatic Picture (Hardcover)
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Belief - A Pragmatic Picture (Hardcover)
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Have you ever called yourself a "pragmatist"? Have you ever
wondered what that means? Aaron Zimmerman traces the origins of
pragmatism to a theory of belief defended by the nineteenth-century
Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain, and defends a novel take on
the pragmatic theory in light of contemporary cognitive
neuroscience, social psychology, and evolutionary biology.
Pragmatists define their beliefs in terms of information poised to
guide our more attentive, controlled actions. Zimmerman describes
the consequences of this definition for the reader's thinking on
the relation between psychology and philosophy, the mind and brain,
the nature of delusion, faith, pretence, racism, and more. He
employs research on animal cognition to argue against the
propositional attitude analysis of belief now popular among
Anglo-American philosophers, offers pragmatic diagnoses of Capgras
syndrome and various forms of racial cognition, and defends William
James' famous doctrine of the "will to believe". Zimmerman believes
we often have room to believe what we want. Indeed, the adoption of
a theory of belief is an instance of this very phenomenon.
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