Book contents
- Beings of Thought and Action
- Beings of Thought and Action
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I Beings of Thought in Action
- Part II Beings of Action in Thought
- Chapter 5 Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology
- Chapter 6 Reasons for Belief and the Primacy of the Practical
- Chapter 7 Assessing Potential Explanations of Pragmatic Encroachment
- Chapter 8 Social Beings
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Reasons for Belief and the Primacy of the Practical
from Part II - Beings of Action in Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2021
- Beings of Thought and Action
- Beings of Thought and Action
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I Beings of Thought in Action
- Part II Beings of Action in Thought
- Chapter 5 Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology
- Chapter 6 Reasons for Belief and the Primacy of the Practical
- Chapter 7 Assessing Potential Explanations of Pragmatic Encroachment
- Chapter 8 Social Beings
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
I develop a novel account of pragmatic encroachment in this chapter. According to this account, there is pragmatic encroachment on the strength of one's reasons for belief, which results in pragmatic encroachment on all notions sensitive to the strength of one's reasons for belief. In section 6.1, I introduce some motivation for the kind of account that I will develop. In section 6.2, I give an informal theory of the strength of reasons for belief. In section 6.3, I explain how this theory plus assumptions about the function of belief lead to pragmatic encroachment on the strength of reasons for belief, which makes it that the practical has primacy over the epistemic. In section 6.4, I deal with objections and in section 6.5, I suggest how to handle cases of ignorant and apparent high stakes.
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- Beings of Thought and ActionEpistemic and Practical Rationality, pp. 140 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021