This Monday March 3 we have Rachael Briggs from MIT Philosophy Common Room, 1.00-2.30.
"How to Whistle It" "What you can't say you can't say, and you can't whistle it either" --Frank Ramsey Many philosophers endorse the following claim about belief: MP: The contents of beliefs are sets of metaphysically possible worlds. Critics of MP complain that it is incompatible with (what they take to be) an obvious truth: DNC: A person might entertain beliefs about several distinct necessary contents. I will defend MP. Although MP is indeed inconsistent with DNC, DNC is not an obvious truth. In fact, much of DNC's appeal comes from a temptation to confuse it with the following obvious truth. DNS: A person might entertain beliefs about several distinct necessary sentences. I suggest that the motivations for accepting DNC would be better accepting DNS by appeal to DNS, provided we think of linguistic competence as we should--i.e., in terms of knowledge how rather than knowledge that. Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 93569663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
