Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?

Cowie, Christopher

doi:10.1007/s11098-019-01280-6

Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?

Cowie, Christopher

Authors

Dr Christopher Cowie christopher.d.cowie@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

In this article I assess the prospects for a particular kind of resolution to Moore’s Paradox. It is that Moore’s Paradox is explained by the existence of a constitutive norm on belief. I focus on a constitutive norm relates that relates belief to knowledge. I develop this explanation. I then present a challenge to it. Norm-based explanations of Moore’s Paradox must appeal to a ‘linking principle’ that explains what is wrong with violating the constitutive norm. But it is difficult to articulate a plausible candidate linking-principle. I show this by canvassing the obvious candidates and articulating the problems with each.

Citation

Cowie, C. (2020). Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?. Philosophical Studies, 177(6), 1685-1702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01280-6

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 6, 2019
Online Publication Date	Mar 25, 2019
Publication Date	Jun 30, 2020
Deposit Date	Mar 6, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Apr 5, 2019
Journal	Philosophical studies
Print ISSN	0031-8116
Electronic ISSN	1573-0883
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	177
Issue	6
Pages	1685-1702
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01280-6

Files

Published Journal Article (Advance online version) (254 Kb)
PDF

Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright Statement
Advance online version © The Author(s) 2019.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.