Pragmatic Encroachment and Belief-Desire Psychology

Analytic Philosophy 53 (4):327-343 (2012)
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Abstract

We develop a novel challenge to pragmatic encroachment. The significance of belief-desire psychology requires treating questions about what to believe as importantly prior to questions about what to do; pragmatic encroachment undermines that priority, and therefore undermines the significance of belief-desire psychology. This, we argue, is a higher cost than has been recognized by epistemologists considering embracing pragmatic encroachment.

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Jonathan Ichikawa
University of British Columbia
Benjamin W. Jarvis
Brown University (PhD)

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