RIS ID
81162
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ISBN: 9781137026514
Abstract
This paper motivates the idea that the most basic kind of believing is a contentless attitude. It gives reasons for thinking that the most basic sort of belief – the sort that both we and other animals adopt toward situations – does not represent those situations in truth-evaluable ways. I call such attitudes pure intentional attitudes. They are not propositional attitudes, which I take to be linguistically mediated intentional attitudes.
Publication Details
Hutto, D. D. (2013). Why believe in contentless beliefs?. In N. Nottelmann (Eds.), New Essays on Belief: Constitution, Content and Structure (pp. 55-74). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.