Sara Aronowitz is a former UM grad student who's now at the University of Arizona. Sara will be giving the talk over zoom (info below) entitled
"A Planning Theory of Belief" on Tuesday, March 15 at 4:30pm EST.

Abstract: What does it mean to hold a belief? Some ways of speaking suggest that to hold a belief is to have something in your mind: beliefs are things we acquire, defend, recover, and so on (Abelson, 1986). That is, believing is a matter of being in a state of having a thing. I will argue for an alternative: believing is something we do. First, I'll show that state-based accounts lead us into problems in two related areas: believing in between active occurrent episodes, and incoherent sets of beliefs. I'll then present an analogy between belief and planning that fleshes out what it would mean for belief to be an activity.

More about Sara: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~skaron/index.html

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