Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible

Theoria 28 (3):407-420 (2013)
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I review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discuss her disposition- alism about belief, and argue it’s a good fit with the idea that belief’s objects are Russellian states of affairs.

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Mark Richard
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Some Revisionary Proposals about Belief and Believing.Ruth Barcan Marcus - 1990 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50:133 - 153.
Rationality and believing the impossible.Ruth Barcan Marcus - 1983 - Journal of Philosophy 80 (6):321-338.
A Proposed Solution to a Puzzle about Belief.Ruth Barcan Marcus - 1981 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 6 (1):501-510.

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