Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible

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Published 15-07-2013
DOI https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.7102
Mark Richard
Harvard University

Abstract

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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Richard, M. (2013). Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 28(3), 407–420. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.7102
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Keywords

Belief, truth, dispositionalism, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Kripke's puzzle about belief

Issue
Vol. 28 No. 3 (2013): Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012)
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MONOGRAPHIC SECTION

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