N. Nottelmann 
New Essays on Belief 
Constitution, Content and Structure

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right. This volume comprises 11 original essays on belief written by a range of the best authors in the field.

Table of Content

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Nikolaj Nottelmann 1. Belief Metaphysics – The Basic Questions; Nikolaj Nottelmann 2. Belief: A Study of Form, Content, and Reference; Robert Audi 3. Why Believe in Contentless Beliefs?; Daniel D. Hutto 4. A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box; Eric Schwitzgebel 5. Beliefs and Belief’s Penumbra; Robert J. Matthews 6. Belief and Its Bedfellows; Tim Bayne and Anandi Hattiangadi 7. On Knowing Your Own Beliefs: A Representationalist Account; Peter Carruthers 8. Keeping Attitude Metaphysics out of Attitude Ascription Semantics (and Vice Versa); Erin Eaker 9. Losing Belief, While Keeping up the Attitudes: The Case for Cognitive Phenomenology; Søren Harnow Klausen 10. Belief State Intensity; Dale Jacquette 11. Some Metaphysical Implications of a Credible Ethics of Belief; Nikolaj Nottelmann & Rik Peels Index

About the author

Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, USA Tim Bayne, University of Manchester, UK Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland, USA Erin Eaker, University of Maryland, USA Anandi Hattiangadi, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, UK Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire, UK Dale Jacquette, University of Bern, Switzerland Søren Harnow Klausen, University of Southern Denmark Robert J. Matthews, Rutgers University, USA Rik Peels, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Eric Schwitzgebel, The University of California, Riverside, USA