Rip van Winkle and the retention of ‘today’-belief: a puzzle
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- dc.contributor.author Verdejo Aparicio, Víctor Martín
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-07T12:59:53Z
- dc.date.available 2024-03-07T12:59:53Z
- dc.date.issued 2020
- dc.description.abstract Can a subject who expresses a belief with ‘today’ on a given day, and subsequently loses track of time, retain and re-express that belief on a future, potentially distant day? Since Kaplan’s tentative remarks on Rip Van Winkle, it has become popular to answer this question in the positive. However, a remarkably simple variation of the Rip Van Winkle story can show that this kind of view leads to a puzzling dilemma: either subjects cannot re-express a belief with utterances of ‘today’ on the same day, or else they may rationally exhibit conflicting stances toward the same ‘today’-belief. This result may be seen as supporting the claim that retention of ‘today’-belief over time requires the tracking of days. Yet it may also spur further research into the capacities involved in belief retention and re-expression to solve the puzzle.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Government of Spain) and the European Union (research grant PID2019-106420GA-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
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- dc.identifier.citation Verdejo VM. Rip van Winkle and the retention of ‘today’-belief: a puzzle. Res Philosophica. 2020 Jul;97(3):459-69. DOI: 10.11612/resphil.1925
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1925
- dc.identifier.issn 2168-9105
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59350
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Philosophy Documentation Center
- dc.relation.ispartof Res Philosophica. 2020 Jul;97(3):459-69
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-106420GA-I00
- dc.rights © 2020 Víctor M. Verdejo © 2020 Res Philosophica.
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- dc.subject.other Van Winkle, Rip (Personatge de ficció) -- Crítica i interpretació
- dc.subject.other Temps
- dc.subject.other Futur
- dc.title Rip van Winkle and the retention of ‘today’-belief: a puzzle
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