Podcasts from 'the Aim of Belief'

Published Jul 1, 2009

The Aim of Belief was a conference held at the University of Oslo from the 11th to the 13th of June 2009. The theme of the conference was to investigate the idea that truth provides a fundamental standard of correctness for belief. While it is generally accepted that belief aims at truth (if not the more demanding goal of knowledge), there are interesting ongoing debates about how this idea is to be fleshed out.

More information about the programme, speakers as well as downloadable abstracts can be found here.

Downloadable talks in mp3 format:

Pascal Engel - 'Sticking to Normativism about the Aim of Belief'

Douglas Edwards responding to Pascal Engel

Paul Horwich - 'Belief-Truth Norms'

Theodora Achourioti responding to Paul Horwich

David Papineau - 'There are no norms of Belief'

Heine Holmen responding to David Papineau

Nishi Shah - 'Denying Doxastic Reasons'

J.Adam Carter responding to Nishi Shah

Kathrin Glüer-Pagin & Åsa Wikforss - 'What is Belief?'

Anders Nes responding to Kathrin Glüer-Pagin & Åsa Wikforss