Belief and its linguistic expression: Toward a belief box account of first-person authority
Philosophical Psychology 1 (1):65-76 (2002)
| Abstract | In this paper I characterize the problem of first-person authority as it confronts the proponent of the belief box conception of belief, and I develop the groundwork for a belief box account of that authority. If acceptable, the belief box account calls into question (by undermining a popular motivation for) the thesis that first-person authority is not to be traced to a truth-tracking relation between first-person opinions themselves and the beliefs which they are about | |||||||||
| Keywords | Authority Behavior Belief Epistemology Linguistics | |||||||||
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