To Believe is to Know that You Believe

Marcus, Eric

doi:10.1111/1746-8361.12144

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“…One might accept this for different reasons. Some philosophers think that normative judgment is part of the process of arriving at self‐ascriptions (Moran, ); others hold that our capacity for self‐knowledge just is the capacity to form attitudes on the basis of our assessment of the reasons for them (Rödl, ; Boyle, ); others hold that ‘belief is a matter of viewing a proposition as what one ought to believe’ (Marcus, , p. 375); and others think acts of self‐ascription undertake or ratify first‐order commitments (Heal, ; Coliva, ). For our purposes, these differences will not matter.…”

Section: Consciously Occupying the Perspective Of A Mental Statementioning

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Deferring to Others about One's Own Mind

Doyle

2019

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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Pessimists about moral testimony hold that there is something suboptimal about forming moral beliefs by deferring to another. This paper motivates an analogous claim about self‐knowledge of the reason‐responsive attitudes. When it comes to your own mind, it seems important to know things “from the inside”, in the first‐personal way, rather than putting your trust in another. After motivating pessimism, the paper offers an explanation of its truth. First‐person knowledge is distinctive because it involves knowing a state of mind and finding it intelligible from one's point of view. It concludes by considering the value of this form of self‐understanding.

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Deferring to Others about One's Own Mind

Doyle

2019

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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“…Among contemporary Constitutivists, Schwitzgebel (2011) is notable in embracing this consequence.18 SeeBoyle (2011) andMarcus (2016) for work in this vein.…”

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