Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (3):640-663 (2015)
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Beliefs are commonly analyzed as binary relations between subjects and propositions. Perry and Lewis have shown that the standard account has difficulties in handling self-locating beliefs. Robert Stalnaker has recently put forward a version of the standard account that is supposed to overcome this problem. Stalnaker's motivation for defending the propositional account of belief is that it comes with a simple and powerful propositional model of communication. In this paper I argue that Stalnaker's proposal fails. The only way of upholding the propositional account of belief is by abandoning the simple account of communication.
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| Keywords | Attitudes de se Self-location Communication Belief Indexicality |
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| DOI | 10.1111/phpr.12107 |
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