Authors
Stephen P Stich
Publication date
1978/12
Journal
Philosophy of science
Volume
45
Issue
4
Pages
499-518
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Description
It is argued that the intuitively sanctioned distinction between beliefs and non-belief states that play a role in the proximate causal history of beliefs is a distinction worth preserving in cognitive psychology. The intuitive distinction is argued to rest on a pair of features exhibited by beliefs but not by subdoxastic states. These are access to consciousness and inferential integration. Harman's view, which denies the distinction between beliefs and subdoxastic states, is discussed and criticized.
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SP Stich - Philosophy of science, 1978