SAVING THE TRADITIONAL VIEW OF CONTENTS FROM THE MESSY SHOPPER AND HIS CRAZY AND AMNESIAC ACOLYTES
SAVING THE TRADITIONAL VIEW OF CONTENTS FROM THE MESSY SHOPPER AND HIS CRAZY AND AMNESIAC ACOLYTES

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I propose a way of saving the traditional view of contents and attitudes from the threat posed by famous scenarios such as Perry’s messy shopper. I argue that, with the solution I suggest, traditionally construed beliefs and contents can play all the roles we traditionally want them to play, including the notoriously problematic explanation of action. I dub the view laid out here the Double Belief Theory because it analyzes de se attitudes as, in fact, two conjoined beliefs, one of which is a second-order belief about the other.

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