{"id":43,"date":"2014-09-07T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:24:50","slug":"seminar-dr-sophie-archer-1-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Dr Sophie Archer, 1 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mind Meaning and Rationality group seminar <\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Dr Sophie Archer (Keble College, Oxford)<br \/>\n&#8216;Defending exclusivity&#8217;<br \/>\nOctober 1 2014<\/h4>\n<p>When one considers whether or not to believe something, what kind of considerations can one bring to bear on this question? You might think it obvious that in considering whether or not to believe something, all one can consider is whether or not that thing is <em>true<\/em>. However, recently, some philosophers have made an interesting case for the idea that this is not so. They have argued that, under certain circumstances, one can take into account <em>practical<\/em> considerations like whether one would <em>like<\/em> to believe that thing. However, I will argue that although considerations such as whether or not one would like to believe something undoubtedly influence one\u2019s deliberation concerning what to believe outside of one\u2019s conscious awareness, such practical considerations can never enter into one\u2019s <em>conscious<\/em> deliberation concerning whether to believe something. Believing just doesn\u2019t work like this. I will defend the idea that there is a certain <em>exclusivity<\/em> pertaining to the kinds of considerations that one can take into account when one is considering whether or not to believe something. That is, that it is only <em>epistemic<\/em> considerations \u2013 considerations concerning the truth of the matter \u2013 that one can consciously consider when deciding whether or not to believe that that thing is the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Meaning and Rationality group seminar Dr Sophie Archer (Keble College, Oxford) &#8216;Defending exclusivity&#8217; October 1 2014 When one considers whether or not to believe something, what kind of considerations can one bring to bear on this question? You might think it obvious that in considering whether or not to believe something, all one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[4,18],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","category-research-seminars","tag-mind-meaning-and-rationality","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}