The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk

(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)

by

Tim Bayne (University of Oxford)

on

 "Belief and its bedfellows"

Tuesday, 9 October, 2012, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to draw some lessons about the nature of belief from considerations concerning beliefs’ ‘bedfellows’: states that are not paradigmatic beliefs but are belief-like in certain important respects. I examine the merits of various proposals about how to categorize such states, before turning to the question of what such states might be able to teach us concerning the nature of belief, the propositional attitudes, and mental states more generally.