KNOWING OUR DEGREES OF BELIEF. (22nd October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dogramaci, Sinan
• Is Part Of: Episteme. Volume 13:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 269
• Page End: 287
• Publication Date: 2015-10-22
• Subjects: Social epistemology -- Periodicals; 121
• DOI: 10.1017/epi.2015.48
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-3600

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The main question of this paper is: how do we manage to know what our own degrees of belief are? Section 1 briefly reviews and criticizes the traditional functionalist view, a view notably associated with David Lewis and sometimes called the theory-theory. I use this criticism to motivate the approach I want to promote. Section 2, the bulk of the paper, examines and begins to develop the view that we have a special kind of introspective access to our degrees of belief. I give an initial assessment of the view by examining its compatibility with leading theories of introspection. And I identify a challenge for the view, and explain why I'm optimistic that the view can overcome it.