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Pragmatic Interests and Imprecise Belief
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
Abstract
Does the strength of a particular belief depend upon the significance we attach to it? Do we move from one context to another, remaining in the same doxastic state concerning p yet holding a stronger belief that p in one context than in the other? For that to be so, a doxastic state must have a certain sort of context-sensitive complexity. So the question is about the nature of belief states, as we understand them, or as we think a theory should model them. I explore the idea and how it relates to work on imprecise probabilities and second-order confidence.
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Thanks to audiences at the EpiConFor Workshop in Nancy and at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh for discussion of earlier versions of this article. Particular thanks to Rich Thomason, Mark Wilson, Teddy Seidenfeld, Jim Joyce, Darrell Rowbottom, Bob Batterman, and Paul Teller for helpful conversations about topics raised here.
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