Book contents
- The Cognitive Science of Belief
- The Cognitive Science of Belief
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Understanding Belief
- Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Beliefs
- Models of Optimal Beliefs
- Implicit vs Explicit Beliefs
- Chapter 7 Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs
- Chapter 8 Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs in a Modern World
- Evolutionary Psychology of Beliefs
- Part II Domains of Beliefs
- Part III Variation in Beliefs
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs
from Implicit vs Explicit Beliefs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cognitive Science of Belief
- The Cognitive Science of Belief
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Understanding Belief
- Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Beliefs
- Models of Optimal Beliefs
- Implicit vs Explicit Beliefs
- Chapter 7 Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs
- Chapter 8 Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs in a Modern World
- Evolutionary Psychology of Beliefs
- Part II Domains of Beliefs
- Part III Variation in Beliefs
- Index
- References
Summary
Humans have two kinds of beliefs, intuitive beliefs and reflective beliefs. Intuitive beliefs are a fundamental category of cognition, defined in the architecture of the mind. They are formulated in an intuitive mental lexicon. Humans are also capable of entertaining an indefinite variety of higher-order or "reflective" propositional attitudes, many of which are of a credal sort. Reasons to hold reflective beliefs are provided by other beliefs that describe the source of the reflective belief as reliable, or that provide an explicit argument in favour of the reflective belief. The mental lexicon of reflective beliefs includes not only intuitive, but also reflective concepts.
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- The Cognitive Science of BeliefA Multidisciplinary Approach, pp. 153 - 171Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022