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An Essay on Belief and Acceptance (Hardcover)
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An Essay on Belief and Acceptance (Hardcover)
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In this incisive new monograph one of Britain's most eminent
philosophers explores the often overlooked tension between
voluntariness and involuntariness in human cognition. He seeks to
counter the widespread tendency for analytic epistemology to be
dominated by the concept of belief. Is scientific knowledge
properly conceived as being embodied, at its best, in a passive
feeling of belief or in an active policy of acceptance? Should a
jury's verdict declare what its members involuntarily believe or
what they voluntarily accept? And should statements and assertions
be presumed to express what their authors believe or what they
accept? Does such a distinction between belief and acceptance help
to resolve the paradoxes of self-deception and akrasia? Must people
be taken to believe everything entailed by what they believe, or
merely to accept everything entailed by what they accept? Through a
systematic examination of these problems, the author sheds new
light on issues of crucial importance in contemporary epistemology,
philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
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