Is the norm on belief evaluative?: a response to McHugh
Is the norm on belief evaluative?: a response to McHugh
We respond to Conor McHugh's claim that an evaluative account of the normative relation between belief and truth is preferable to a prescriptive account. We claim that his arguments fail to establish this. We then draw a more general sceptical conclusion: we take our arguments to put pressure on any attempt to show that an evaluative account will fare better than a prescriptive account. We briefly express scepticism about whether McHugh's more recent ‘fitting attitude’ account fares better.
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Greenberg, Alexander
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Cowie, Christopher
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1 December 2017
Greenberg, Alexander
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Cowie, Christopher
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Greenberg, Alexander and Cowie, Christopher
(2017)
Is the norm on belief evaluative?: a response to McHugh.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98 (S1), .
(doi:10.1111/papq.12158).
Abstract
We respond to Conor McHugh's claim that an evaluative account of the normative relation between belief and truth is preferable to a prescriptive account. We claim that his arguments fail to establish this. We then draw a more general sceptical conclusion: we take our arguments to put pressure on any attempt to show that an evaluative account will fare better than a prescriptive account. We briefly express scepticism about whether McHugh's more recent ‘fitting attitude’ account fares better.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 July 2017
Published date: 1 December 2017
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