{"id":11079,"date":"2018-05-07T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2018-05-07T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:22:28","slug":"mit-joint-colloquium-with-philosophy-daniel-rothschild-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/05\/07\/mit-joint-colloquium-with-philosophy-daniel-rothschild-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Joint Colloquium with Philosophy: Daniel Rothschild (UCL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/people\/permanent-academic-staff\/daniel-rothschild\">Daniel Rothschild<\/a> (University College London)<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title: <\/strong>What it takes to believe.<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday 5\/11, 3:30-5pm<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Place:\u00a0<\/strong>32-155<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much linguistic evidence supports the view that believing something only requires thinking it likely. I assess and reject a rival view, based on recent work on homogeneity in natural language, according to which belief is a more demanding attitude. I discuss the implications of the linguistic considerations about &#8216;believe&#8217; for our philosophical accounts of belief.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Daniel Rothschild (University College London) Title: What it takes to believe. Time:\u00a0Friday 5\/11, 3:30-5pm Place:\u00a032-155 Abstract:\u00a0 Much linguistic evidence supports the view that believing something only requires thinking it likely. I assess and reject a rival view, based on recent work on homogeneity in natural language, according to which belief is a more demanding attitude. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11103,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions\/11103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}