Dear all, There will be a bonus HPS Philosophy Workshop this term, to be held this Friday, 06/06, at 12 noon, in Seminar Room 2 of the HPS Department.
Jack Marley-Payne (MIT) will be giving a talk entitled ‘Task-Indexed Belief’: ==== ABSTRACT Belief is traditionally thought of as a two-place relation between a subject and a proposition. I want to argue that this is mistaken. Roughly put, belief should be indexed to relevant tasks the subject might engage in. This is required to give an adequate account of cases of conflicting behaviour - for example, implicit bias. No simple yes/no answer to the question ‘does S believe that p’ is acceptable in these cases – instead one needs to say ‘S believes that p relative to one index but doesn’t relative to another’. I'll argue for this claim by looking at a number of examples that show that our functional structure is more complex that is often assumed. Usually, philosophers restrict their attention to cases in which verbal and non-verbal behaviour conflict; but there are many other ways it can come apart. For this reason, a correspondingly complex notion of belief is required. ==== The HPS Philosophy Workshop is a venue for junior members of the university to present their work and receive constructive feedback in a relaxed and friendly environment. Also there’s coffee, tea and biscuits. Can’t say fairer than that. Toby Bryant _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
