Trust and the doxastic family

Pascal Engel (1)

1 CRAL - Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage

This article examines Keith Lehrer's distinction between belief and acceptance and how it differs from other accounts of belief and of the family of doxastic attitudes. I sketch a different taxonomy of doxastic attitudes. Lehrer's notion of acceptance is mostly epistemic and at the service of his account of the "loop of reason", whereas for other writers acceptance is mostly a pragmatic attitude. I argue, however, that his account of acceptance underdetermines the role that the attitude of trust plays in his analysis of reason.

Mots clés: Belief; Acceptance; Doxastic attitudes; Trust; Reason; K. Lehrer

Domaines: Philosophie

Pascal Engel. Trust and the doxastic family. Philosophical Studies, 2012, the philosophy of keith lehrer, 161, pp.17-26. ⟨10.1007/s11098-012-9946-z⟩. ⟨hal-03680537⟩