Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The requirements of structural rationality prohibit incoherence, but paradigmatic examples of incoherence are very diverse. Beyond an intuitive sense that incoherent attitudes do not fit together in the right way, it is difficult to characterize precisely what, if anything, unifies the paradigmatic examples. This paper offers a new analysis of incoherence based on the idea that attitudes are incoherent when they are unintelligible given the conceptual background. I argue that this analysis offers a major theoretical advantage over alternatives: it allows us to make progress in debates about foundational issues, such as the nature of truth, logic, and belief.
Author: Claire Field
Institution: University of Zurich
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,947
OpenAlex ID: W4412409881