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Title: | Ascriptions in context / An Experimental Study on the Context-sensitivity of Belief Reports |
Author: | Pérez Pérez, Laura Natalia |
Director/Tutor: | Martí, Genoveva |
Keywords: | Teoria del coneixement Creença i dubte Contextualisme (Filosofia) Theory of knowledge Belief and doubt Contextualism (Philosophy) |
Issue Date: | 5-Oct-2012 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract: | In this dissertation I study and empirically test whether belief attributions are context-sensitive, i.e., whether the truth value of a belief report of the form ‘A believes that S’ is sensitive to contextual parameters. More specifically, I examine whether the Referential Knowledge that the Audience possesses (that is, whether the hearer of a report is familiar with the name employed in it) and/or the Stakes for the agent at the time of attribution, affect patterns of attribution in a way such that the variation in them causes that a single report be correctly made in one context but not in other while nothing in the mental state of the agent has changed. To this end, I designed original experimental material and tested it on several samples of undergraduates at the Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I here make an analysis of methodological approaches in empiric testing of some philosophical matters and offer considerations about experimentation on belief ascriptions in particular. I conclude the data gathered supports the hypothesis that there are contextualist patterns of belief attribution as regards the Referential Knowledge of the Audience parameter, but not for the Stakes variable. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/42081 |
Appears in Collections: | Tesis Doctorals - Departament - Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència |
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02.LNPP_RESUMEN_CASTELLANO.pdf | 148.48 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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