Aiming at rationality : an alternative account of the truth-belief relationship.
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2014-06-19
Authors
Viedge, Nikolai
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Abstract
One of the hot topics in doxastic epistemology at the moment is how to characterise the
relationship between beliefs and truth. The extant literature is dominated by two views; a
teleological understanding of the relationship – championed by people such as Asbjørn
Steglich-Petersen – and a normative understanding of the relationship – championed by among
others Nishi Shah. I argue that neither view does an adequate job of capturing the relationship
between beliefs and truth. I argue that these two views should be abandoned in favour of a third
model that sees beliefs as part of a doxastic system that aims at rationality.