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SUMMARY:Task-indexed belief - Jack Marley-Payne (MIT)
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CONTACT:Toby Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Belief is traditionally thought of as a two-place relation bet
 ween a subject and a proposition. I want to argue that this is mistaken. R
 oughly put\, belief should be indexed to relevant _tasks_ the subject migh
 t engage in. This is required to give an adequate account of cases of conf
 licting behaviour - for example\, implicit bias. No simple yes/no answer t
 o the question 'does S believe that p' is acceptable in these cases – in
 stead one needs to say 'S believes that p relative to one index but doesn'
 t relative to another'. I'll argue for this claim by looking at a number o
 f examples that show that our functional structure is more complex that is
  often assumed. Usually\, philosophers restrict their attention to cases i
 n which verbal and non-verbal behaviour conflict\; but there are many othe
 r ways it can come apart. For this reason\, a correspondingly complex noti
 on of belief is required.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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