Dear all, Next week, Mr. Daniel Brigham (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled "Attitudes and Platitudes". An abstract is included below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15pm on Tuesday, 3 December, in the *Boys Smith Room* (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena ABSTRACT: It's something of an orthodox view that propositional attitudes such as belief and desire are dyadic relational attitudes holding between thinkers and propositions. Reports of the form 'A believes that p' are often taken as saying that the referent of 'A' stands in the relation expressed by 'believes' to the proposition designated by 'that p'. If we accept two initially plausible assumptions, however, then this view cannot be correct. The first is that believing and desiring a proposition is simply believing or desiring it to be true. The second is that believing and desiring that p is one thing, whereas believing and desiring that the proposition that p is true is altogether quite another. I defend both of these assumptions, and therefore conclude that the orthodox view ought to be rejected. -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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