Reasons, attenuators, and virtue: a novel account of pragmatic encroachment

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dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-04T12:19:01Z
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dc.date.issued2023-09-04
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I explicate pragmatic encroachment by appealing to pragmatic considerations attenuating, or weakening, epistemic reasons to believe. I call this the ‘Attenuators View’. I will show that this proposal is better than spelling out pragmatic encroachment in terms of reasons against believing – what I call the ‘Reasons View’. While both views do equally well when it comes to providing a plausible mechanism of how pragmatic encroachment works, the Attenuators View does a better job distinguishing practical and epistemic reasons to believe. First, this view does not appeal to the costs of believing falsely as reasons against believing; second, because of this, it does not run the risk of tearing down the wall between practical and epistemic reasons bearing on belief. I underpin the Attenuators View with a virtue-theoretic account of how pragmatic encroachment attenuates epistemic reasons and close my discussion by considering some objections against such a view.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2003/42727
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-24559
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnalytic philosophy
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.titleReasons, attenuators, and virtue: a novel account of pragmatic encroachmenten
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eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitationSchmidt, E. (2023). Reasons, attenuators, and virtue: A novel account of pragmatic encroachment. Analytic Philosophy, 00, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12314
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifierhttps://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12314

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