Three Transparency Principles Examined

N.J.G. Kloosterboer, René van Woudenberg

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Abstract

Abstract. This paper derives, from Richard Moran’s work, three different accounts
of doxastic Transparency—roughly, the view that when a rational person
wants to know whether she believes that p, she directs her attention to the truthvalue
of p, not to the mental attitude she has vis-à-vis p. We investigate which
of these is the most plausible of the three by discussing a number of (classes of)
examples. We conclude that the most plausible account of Transparency is in tension
with the motivation behind Transparency accounts: it is disconnected from
the deliberative stance.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)111-128
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Philosophical Research
Volume44
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019

Keywords

  • theoretical vs. deliberative stance
  • Richard Moran
  • rationality
  • self-knowledge
  • transparency
  • alienated belief
  • first-person perspective

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