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Details for Dr Finn Spicer
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Finn Spicer |
| Job title | Senior Research Fellow |
| Department | Department of Philosophy University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Cantab.), M.Phil.(Lond.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | epistemology mathematical knowledge beliefs conscious belief Moore’s paradox psychological explanation philosophy of emotion |
| Areas of expertise | My MPhil research sought to build a naturalist for mathematical knowledge; my PhD is an investigation of the concepts we use to form beliefs about our own and other’s mental states, and the epistemic status of those beliefs. I have also written and spoken on the nature of conscious belief, Moore’s paradox, the question of individualism about mental content, the nature of psychological explanation, the semantics of propositional attitude reports and the philosophy of emotion. |