Finkelstein on the difference between conscious and unconscious belief
Dialogue 43 (4):707-716 (2004)
Abstract
ABSTRACT: In a recent article, D. H. Finkelstein offers a new proposal about the distinction between conscious and unconscious belief On his proposal, someone’s belief is conscious if he has an ability to express it simply by self-ascribing it; and someone’s belief is unconscious if he lacks such an ability. In this article, I argue that his proposal is inadequate, and then offer a somewhat different proposal. On my proposal, someone’s belief is conscious if he has self-ascribed this belief without recourse to any evidence about his behaviour; and someone’s belief is unconscious if it is not conscious.RÉSUMÉ: Dans un récent article, D. H. Finkelstein propose une nouvelle distinction entre croyance consciente et inconsciente. Suivant cette proposition, la croyance de quelqu’un est consciente s’il a la capacité de l’exprimer tout simplement en se l’attribuant; sa croyance est inconsciente s’il n’en a pas la capacité. Dans cet article, je fais valoir que cette proposition est inadéquate, et je propose ensuite une nouvelledistinction. Suivant cette distinction, la croyance de quelqu’un est consciente s’il s’attribue cette croyance sans s’appuyer sur aucun élément de preuve au sujet de son comportement; sa croyance est inconsciente si elle n’est pas conscienteISBN(s)
0012-2173
DOI
10.1017/s0012217300004005
My notes
Similar books and articles
Belief: Form, Content, and Function.Radu J. Bogdan (ed.) - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
On the distinction between conscious and unconscious states of mind.David H. Finkelstein - 1999 - American Philosophical Quarterly 36 (2):79-100.
Contrasts and dissociations suggest qualitative differences between conscious and unconscious processes.Gezinus Wolters & R. Hans Phaf - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (3):359-360.
Conscious and unconscious processing of emotional faces.Jack Honvank & Edward H. F. Haaden - 2001 - In Beatrice De Gelder, Edward H. F. De Haan & Charles A. Heywood (eds.), Out of Mind: Varieties of Unconscious Processes. Oxford University Press. pp. 222-237.
The emergence of consciousness: BUC versus SOC.Ron Sun - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (3):355-356.
Is the mind conscious, functional, or both?Max Velmans - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):629-630.
Finkelstein on the Distinction between Conscious and Unconscious Belief.Byeong D. Lee - 2004 - Dialogue 43 (4):707-716.
Analytics
Added to PP
2009-01-28
Downloads
74 (#164,815)
6 months
3 (#223,827)
2009-01-28
Downloads
74 (#164,815)
6 months
3 (#223,827)
Historical graph of downloads
Citations of this work
Fictionalism About Fictional Characters Revisited.Stuart Brock - 2016 - Res Philosophica 93 (2):377-403.
BonJour’s Way Out of the Sellarsian Dilemma and his Explanatory Account.Byeong D. Lee - 2013 - Dialogue 52 (2):287-304.
References found in this work
Beliefs and subdoxastic states.Stephen P. Stich - 1978 - Philosophy of Science 45 (December):499-518.
Tacit belief.William G. Lycan - 1986 - In R. Bogdan (ed.), Belief: Form, Content, and Function. Oxford University Press.