Philosophy

PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group

7 Dec 2016: Seminar

7 Dec 2016 17:00 – 18:30

Room 3.10, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD

Presenter: Neil Levy (University of Oxford)

Title: You Meta Believe it

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Abstract: Because of the privileged place of belief in explaining behaviour, mismatch cases - in which agents sincerely claim to believe that p, but act in a way that is inconsistent with that belief - have attracted a great deal of attention. In this paper, I argue that some of these cases, at least, are explained by agents believing that they believe that p, while failing to believe that p. They do not believe that ~p; rather, they have an indistinct first-order, beliefy, representation that p.

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We are a group of researchers from diverse backgrounds in the above-mentioned groups (and beyond) who aim to gain an interdisciplinary yet deep understanding of the threads that bind the human mind and the world. Please come along!

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Dr Tillmann Vierkant

PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group