Transparency in doxastic deliberation
by Sharadin, Nathaniel P., M.A., THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2010, 39 pages; 1478178

Abstract:

Nishi Shah and David Velleman purport to explain transparency, the phenomenon exhibited by doxastic deliberation whereby the first-personal question whether to believe that p gives way to the factual question whether p, by means of positing a constitutive norm of belief to the effect that a belief is correct if and only if it is true. I argue that the phenomenon they identify as transparency is not apt for explanation by means of a norm of belief because their explanation fails to respect a familiar feature about norms in general: the existence of a norm does not guarantee compliance with the norm. I articulate a competing interpretation of transparency and argue that this kind of transparency is fully explicable by the existence of a norm of belief.
 
AdviserGeoffrey Sayre-McCord
SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
SourceMAI/ 48-06, p. , Aug 2010
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsEpistemology; Ethics; Philosophy
Publication Number1478178
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