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Timothy Williamson, the belief-value distinction, and social anthropology (with some autism-face chat in appendix 2)
This paper is a response to Timothy Williamson's description of what is covered by social anthropology. Amongst other things, he describes the social anthropologist as attending to the beliefs and values of a people studied. But why distinguish beliefs from values? In this paper, I present two accounts of the distinction in philosophy and apply these to social anthropology. I argue that there is a reason for why the social anthropologist can overlook the belief-value distinction. (This paper before the appendices is an attempted imitation, by the way. "Of whom?" Helen Beebee; Helen Beebee with my specialist knowledge.) NOTE: this is the abstract; you need to download the PDF probably.
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