Explanatory vs. Defensive reasons

analytical philosophy / Belief / Cognition / Epistemology / Featured Scholar: Susanna Siegel / Intentionality / Philosophy of Mind

In this post I want to approach the topic of the previous post from a different angle. I raised two questions about the U&C study: whether people believe the comparative ratings (Question 1), and what inference, if any, leads them to their ultimate verdict (Question 2). Either question would be …

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Rationalization, Belief, and Inference

analytical philosophy / Belief / Epistemology / Featured Scholar: Susanna Siegel / Intentionality

When you were a kid, did your room ever get really messy? Of course it did. Did its messiness bother you? Quite possibly not. Lots of kids are not at all bothered by their messy rooms. (Question: Does it even look messy to them, or does it look orderly? We …

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