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DOES BELIEF AIM (ONLY) AT THE TRUTH?
Article first published online: 23 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01421.x
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WHITING, D. (2012), DOES BELIEF AIM (ONLY) AT THE TRUTH?. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 93: 279–300. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01421.x
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Abstract
It is common to hear talk of the aim of belief and to find philosophers appealing to that aim for numerous explanatory purposes. What belief's aim explains depends, of course, on what that aim is. Many hold that it is somehow related to truth, but there are various ways in which one might specify belief's aim using the notion of truth. In this article, by considering whether they can account for belief's standard of correctness and the epistemic norms governing belief, I argue against certain prominent specifications of belief's aim given in terms of truth, and advance a neglected alternative.