Attitudes Beyond Belief: A Theory of Rational Non-Doxastic Attitude Formation and Evaluation

Non-Doxastic Attitudes;Rationality;Philosophy;Humanities;Philosophy

Drucker, DanielWeatherson, Brian James ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Non-Doxastic Attitudes;    Rationality;    Philosophy;    Humanities;    Philosophy;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

I present and explore a normative theory of non-doxastic attitudes like desire, hatred, and admiration. The viewpoint is general and abstract: independent of any particular flavor or source of normativity, I explore general features any acceptable way of forming these attitudes would have, especially in contrast to doxastic attitudes like belief. The first three chapters present a relatively unified picture of non-doxastic attitude formation, grounded in types of non-doxastic attitudes we can have in contrast to their impossible doxastic analogues. In particular, I defend a kind of externalism; I apply it to a specific attitude, desire, to show how the approach works; and then based on a different aspect of the view, I present what I take to be some of the best ways to motivate the view, and some of the best ways to criticize it, as well. In the last chapter, I develop a theory about how these attitudes are best communicated, this time meant to capture how belief is best communicated, too, though it is inspired by certain features of non-doxastic attitudes.