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11Relativism About Epistemic ModalsIn Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Epistemic Modals Contextualism Contextualism about Epistemic Modals Relativist Proposals Relativists' Arguments Against Contextualism Conclusion References.
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8Relativism about Epistemic ModalsIn Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley. 2017.This chapter focuses on relativism, and outlines debate about relativism about epistemic modals. The debate will be helpful to say a bit more about the structure of contextualist theories, since contextualism is the main competitor to relativism, and probably is the default starting point view. Accordingly, much of the motivation for relativism comes from the purported inadequacy of the contextualist options. The chapter looks at some of the important features of contextualist views in general. …Read more
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4Unstructured Content (edited book)Oxford University Press. forthcoming.The original essays in this volume present new research on unstructured theories of content, which have traditionally played a central role in linguistics and philosophy of language. The volume explores a wide range of themes related to unstructured content, including both the continued controversy over whether unstructured theories individuate contents too coarsely and various applications of unstructured theories to topics like rationality, epistemic commitment, semantic expressivism, relevanc…Read more
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2De Se RelativismIn Martin Kusch (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism, Routledge. pp. 518-527. 2019.
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Imagination, Delusion, and Self-DeceptionIn Tim Bayne & Jordi Fernàndez (eds.), Delusions, Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation, Psychology Press. 2008.
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Delusion: Cognitive Approaches—Bayesian Inference and CompartmentalisationIn K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. 2013.Cognitive approaches contribute to our understanding of delusions by providing an explanatory framework that extends beyond the personal level to the sub personal level of information-processing systems. According to one influential cognitive approach, two factors are required to account for the content of a delusion, its initial adoption as a belief, and its persistence. This chapter reviews Bayesian developments of the two-factor framework.
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Epistemic Modals in ContextIn Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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