Clark on Beliefs and Opinions: Reconstructing the Dennettian Project

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  • Nicolás Venturelli Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Keywords:

belief, opinion, mental content, intentional attribution

Abstract

In this paper I pretend to clarify the distinction proposed by Daniel Dennett between beliefs
(basic dispositional states), and opinions (derived, linguistically “infected” states) and determine its
relevance, particularly for the theory of mental content, and generally for the philosophy of mind. With
this aim, I consider the critic made by Andy Clark against dennettian mild realism and, especially, his
reconstruction of Dennett’s position. I argue that this reconstrucion doesn’t make justice, to the multiple role
of the distinction and, to its importance in structuring the dennettian position: the distinction is, centrally, a
metaphilosophical effort to separate two different theoretical fields, a theory of mental content, on the one
hand, and a theory of consciousness, on the other
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Author Biography

Nicolás Venturelli, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Philosophy · Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities

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Published

2014-02-05

How to Cite

Venturelli, N. (2014). Clark on Beliefs and Opinions: Reconstructing the Dennettian Project. Versiones. Philosophy’s Journal, (5), 59–69. Retrieved from https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/versiones/article/view/18369

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