Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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This is a summary of my paper, titled "The Relationship Between Belief and Credence," which has just been published in Philosophy Compass. You can download and read the paper for free here: philpapers.org/rec/JACTRB-5

Main concepts/definitons:

The ontological question: do both belief and credence exist?

Belief-eliminitivism: beliefs don’t exist.
Credal-eliminativism: credences don’t exist.

The reduction question: Is one attitude more metaphysically fundamental?

Credence-first view: credence is more fundamental than belief.
Belief-first view: belief is more fundamental than credence.
Dualism: belief and credence are equally fundamental.

Lockean Thesis: S ought to believe p iff S has a rational high credence in p.

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