Feelings of Believing

In Feelings of Believing, Ryan Hickerson interprets the doxastic theories of Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and James in light of empirical work on attention and overconfidence. It brings together the history of philosophy, phenomenology, and psychology.

Ryan Hickerson, PhD, teaches philosophy at Western Oregon University.

Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Recovering Sentimentalism Chapter One: Feeling Disbelief: Hume's Doxastic Sentimentalism Chapter Two: Feeling Certain and The Circle: A Sentimental Interpretation of Cartesian Clarity Chapter Three: The Psychology of Overconfidence Chapter Four: The Feeling of Self-Evidence: Husserlian Evidenz as Gefühlsindex Appendix to Chapter Four: Straw Men in Dark Times Chapter Five: Doxasticity as Electricity: William James and the Live Hypothesis Chapter Six: Attention and Feeling Noticed: Phenomenology and Psychology Conclusion: Beliefy Feelings, Whence and Whither Bibliography