Dear all, This is just a reminder that the Mental Sciences Club will meet today from 4:00 till 5:30 p.m. when Maiya Jordan (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy) will be talking to us about “A Non-Doxastic Account of Self-Deception”.
Abstract: Regarding someone who self-deceives that P, what is the nature of her professed belief that P? Doxastic accounts hold that it is a genuine belief. Non-doxastic accounts deny this. In particular, the pretence account holds that the self-deceiver’s professed belief is a pretence that she believes that P. I argue that the truth lies somewhere between these two positions. The self-deceiver’s professed belief is a pretence that she believes that P, but it is a pretence that is distinctively restricted, because necessarily misrepresented by her as a genuine belief. The result is that she sometimes acts as if she believes that P, and other times acts as if she does not so believe. Join Zoom Meeting https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98504252038 <https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98504252038> Meeting ID: 985 0425 2038 All are very welcome! Best wishes, Tom McClelland and Jessie Munton Lecturer in Philosophy University of Cambridge https://jessiemunton.wixsite.com/philosophy _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
