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On Believing - Being Right in a World of Possibilities (Hardcover)
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On Believing - Being Right in a World of Possibilities (Hardcover)
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Developing original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On
Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story. Hunter
argues that to believe something is to be in position to do, think,
and feel things in light of a possibility whose obtaining would
make one right. The logical aspect is that being right depends only
on whether that possibility obtains. The psychological one concerns
how that possibility can rationalise what one does, thinks, and
feels. But, Hunter argues, beliefs are not causes, capacities, or
dispositions. Rather, believing rationalises because possibilities
are potential reasons. Hunter also denies that believing is a form
of representing. The objects of belief are possibilities, not
representations, and belief states are not themselves true or
false. Hunter defends this modal view against familiar objections
and explores how objective and subjective limits to belief generate
credal illusions and ground credal necessities. Developing a novel
account of the normativity of belief, he argues that voluntary acts
of inference make us responsible for our beliefs. While denying
that believing is intrinsically normative, Hunter grounds the
ethics of belief in attributive goodness. Believing something is to
our credit when it shows us to be good in some way, and what we
ought to believe depends on what we ought to know, and not on the
evidence we have. The ethics of belief, Hunter argues, concern how
a believer ought to be positioned in a world of possibilities.
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