Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment

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Autor(a) principal: Littlejohn,Clayton
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Manuscrito (Online)
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Resumo: ABSTRACT According to the fallibilist, it is possible for us to know things when our evidence doesn't entail that our beliefs are correct. Even if there is some chance that we're mistaken about p, we might still know that p is true. Fallibilists will tell you that an important virtue of their view is that infallibilism leads to skepticism. In this paper, we'll see that fallibilist impurism has considerable skeptical consequences of its own. We've missed this because we've focused our attention on the high-stakes cases that they discuss in trying to motivate their impurism about knowledge. We'll see this once we think about the fallibilist impurist's treatment of low-stakes cases. […] when error would be especially disastrous, few possibilities are properly ignored (Lewis 1996: 556, n. 12).
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spelling Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic EncroachmentPragmatic EncroachmentABSTRACT According to the fallibilist, it is possible for us to know things when our evidence doesn't entail that our beliefs are correct. Even if there is some chance that we're mistaken about p, we might still know that p is true. Fallibilists will tell you that an important virtue of their view is that infallibilism leads to skepticism. In this paper, we'll see that fallibilist impurism has considerable skeptical consequences of its own. We've missed this because we've focused our attention on the high-stakes cases that they discuss in trying to motivate their impurism about knowledge. We'll see this once we think about the fallibilist impurist's treatment of low-stakes cases. […] when error would be especially disastrous, few possibilities are properly ignored (Lewis 1996: 556, n. 12).UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência2017-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-60452017000400031Manuscrito v.40 n.4 2017reponame:Manuscrito (Online)instname:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)instacron:UNICAMP10.1590/0100-6045.2017.v40n4.clinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLittlejohn,Claytoneng2018-02-19T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0100-60452017000400031Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0100-6045&lng=pt&nrm=isoPUBhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpmwrigley@cle.unicamp.br|| dascal@spinoza.tau.ac.il||publicacoes@cle.unicamp.br2317-630X0100-6045opendoar:2018-02-19T00:00Manuscrito (Online) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)false
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title Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
spellingShingle Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
Littlejohn,Clayton
Pragmatic Encroachment
title_short Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
title_full Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
title_fullStr Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
title_full_unstemmed Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
title_sort Small Stakes Give You the Blues: The Skeptical Costs of Pragmatic Encroachment
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description ABSTRACT According to the fallibilist, it is possible for us to know things when our evidence doesn't entail that our beliefs are correct. Even if there is some chance that we're mistaken about p, we might still know that p is true. Fallibilists will tell you that an important virtue of their view is that infallibilism leads to skepticism. In this paper, we'll see that fallibilist impurism has considerable skeptical consequences of its own. We've missed this because we've focused our attention on the high-stakes cases that they discuss in trying to motivate their impurism about knowledge. We'll see this once we think about the fallibilist impurist's treatment of low-stakes cases. […] when error would be especially disastrous, few possibilities are properly ignored (Lewis 1996: 556, n. 12).
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