Just a reminder that Mat Simpson will be speaking at the Serious 
Metaphysics Group tomorrow, on 'Dispositions and General Beliefs'. We'll 
meet from 1:00 - 2:30pm, in the Faculty Board Room.

Hope to see you there,

Georgie


Dispositions and General Beliefs

I will defend a theory of general beliefs (beliefs whose content is of 
the form "Everything is F" and "Something is F") which takes them to be 
certain kinds of dispositions to have singular beliefs, rather than as
representing essentially general facts. Call this the disposition 
theory. This theory has its roots in Ramsey's paper General Propositions 
and Causality and has been more recently defended by D.M. Armstrong. 
However they only discuss beliefs of the form "Everything is F"; I'll 
develop one way of accounting for beliefs of the form "Something is F". 
I will defend the disposition theory from several objections, but I'll 
also argue that it has advantages over other theories of general 
beliefs.


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