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Extracting belief from knowledge – Jennifer Nagel, Univ of Toronto 3:00 pm
Extracting belief from knowledge – Jennifer Nagel, Univ of Toronto @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept., 5th Floor
Jan 26 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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What can epistemologists learn from the development of our capacities to attribute knowledge and belief? Examining recent work in comparative and developmental psychology, I argue that the capacity to attribute belief is a spinoff from an earlier and more basic capacity to attribute knowledge. Knowledge attributions proceed with a simpler set of assumptions, which are later elaborated to allow attributions of the weaker state of belief. This model of the relationship between knowledge and belief[...]
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