Feelings of Believing

Psychology, History, Phenomenology

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-17
Mått:156 x 215 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498577199

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Ryan Hickerson, PhD, teaches philosophy at Western Oregon University.

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Also the author of The History of Intentionality: Theories of Consciousness from Brentano through Husserl, 2007) Hickerson (Western Oregon Univ.) has written a complex and subtle treatment of what he calls "doxastic sentimentalism," which is the theory that belief is not solely or primarily a cognitive state but also an affective state. In short, belief is as much a matter of feeling that one believes as it is anything else. Hickerson develops this thesis in conversation with empirical psychology and a variety of philosophers: Descartes, Husserl, and William James among others. The book is carefully argued and well written. . . Those working in the area will find it a useful contribution to the literature and well worth reading. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Recovering SentimentalismChapter One: Feeling Disbelief: Hume’s Doxastic SentimentalismChapter Two: Feeling Certain and The Circle: A Sentimental Interpretation of Cartesian ClarityChapter Three: The Psychology of OverconfidenceChapter Four: The Feeling of Self-Evidence: Husserlian Evidenz as GefühlsindexAppendix to Chapter Four: Straw Men in Dark TimesChapter Five: Doxasticity as Electricity: William James and the Live HypothesisChapter Six: Attention and Feeling Noticed: Phenomenology and PsychologyConclusion: Beliefy Feelings, Whence and WhitherBibliography