How can representationalism accommodate degrees of belief? A dispositional representationalist proposal

Synthese 199 (3-4):8943-8964 (2021)
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This paper argues that representationalism of a Fodorian variety can accommodate the fact that beliefs come in degrees. First, it responds to two key arguments to the contrary. Second, it builds upon these responses and outlines a novel representationalist theory of degrees of beliefs. I call this theory dispositional representationalism, as it involves direct appeal to our dispositions to form representations and propositional attitudes concerning them.

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Darrell P. Rowbottom
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