An essay on belief and acceptance Book

I	What Is the Difference?	1
1	The conceptual nature of the distinction	1
2	How to carve it at the joint	4
3	Some connections and disconnections between the two mental states	16
4	The voluntariness issue	20
5	The deductive closure issue	27
6	Some other logical issues	33
II	Purposive Explanation	40
7	The involuntariness of belief and desire	40
8	The voluntariness of acceptance and goal-adoption	44
9	The purposes of animals, infants, and adults	49
10	The purposes of organizations and artefacts	53
11	Some connections between explanation and deliberation	60
12	Reasons and causes	63
III	What Cognitive State Does Indicative Speech Express?	68
13	The difference between statements and assertions	68
14	Do the concepts of belief and acceptance exhaust their genus?	73
15	Does belief exist?	79
IV	Does Knowledge Imply Belief Or Acceptance?	86
16	What is the role of belief in scientific enquiry?	86
17	Reasons for believing and reasons for accepting	100
18	Some epistemological corollaries	103
19	What has subjective probability to do with strength of belief?	108
20	Should a jury's verdict declare what its members believe or what they accept?	117
21	Do intentions imply beliefs?	126
22	When is belief a reason for acceptance?	130
V	Self-Deceit and the Socratic Paradox	133
23	The paradox of self-deception	133
24	Some proposed resolutions of the paradox of self-deception	136
25	Self-deceit as a case of acceptance dominating belief	141
26	Some proposed resolutions of the Socratic paradox	150
27	Akrasia as a case of acceptance dominating belief	153
28	Could self-deceit or akrasia be a case of belief dominating acceptance?	155
	Index	161