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Feelings of Believing
Psychology, History, Phenomenology
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2020
Summary
In Feelings of Believing: Psychology, History, Phenomenology, Ryan Hickerson demonstrates that philosophers as diverse as Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and William James all treated believing as feeling. He argues that doxastic sentimentalism, therefore, is considerably more central to modern epistemology than philosophers have recognized. When the empirical psychology of overconfidence and attention is brought to bear on the history of philosophy and the phenomenology of believing, all point toward belief as fundamentally affective. Understanding believing as feeling has the potential to make us better believers, both by encouraging suspicion of unexamined certainties and by focusing attention on credulity. Hickerson argues that believing is typically felt but not given attention by the believer, and he suggests that virtuous believers are those who pay careful attention to their own sentiments-- who attempt to raise their beliefs to the level of judgments.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7717-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7718-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
319
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
1 Feeling Disbelief No access Pages 33 - 60
2 Feeling Certain and the Circle No access Pages 61 - 102
3 The Psychology of Overconfidence No access Pages 103 - 142
4 The Feeling of Self-Evidence No access Pages 143 - 188
5 Doxasticity as Electricity No access Pages 189 - 220
6 Attention and Feeling Noticed No access Pages 221 - 264
Beliefy Feelings, Whence and Whither No access Pages 265 - 290
