Moore’s Paradox, Defective Interpretation, Justified Belief and Conscious Belief

• Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Moore; paradox; assertion; belief; irrationality; justification; speech-acts; consciousness; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/971
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this journal, Hamid Vahid argues against three families of explanation of Moore-paradoxicality. The first is the Wittgensteinian approach; I assert that p just in case I assert that I believe that p. So making a Moore-paradoxical assertion involves contradictory assertions. The second is the epis...