Pub Date : 2021-07-29DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198850670.003.0015
Eric Schwitzgebel
On an intellectualist approach to belief, the intellectual endorsement of a proposition (such as ‘The working poor deserve as much respect as the handsomely paid’) is sufficient or nearly sufficient for believing it. On a pragmatic approach to belief, intellectual endorsement is not enough. Belief is behaviorally demanding. To really, fully believe, you must also ‘walk the walk.’ This chapter argues that the pragmatic approach is preferable on pragmatic grounds: It rightly directs our attention to what matters most in thinking about belief. A pragmatic, walk-the-walk approach to belief better expresses our values, keeps our disciplinary focus in the right place, and encourages salutary self-examination.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-29DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198850670.003.0005
A. Egan
This chapter motivates a fragmentationist research program by identifying a cluster of problems that such a research program is better positioned to address or resolve than a unified model—all instances of the phenomenon of subjects having information that’s available to them for some behavior-guiding purposes but that isn’t available for every purpose. It also identifies some of the challenges and research questions that the fragmentationist program will need to address and where the space of possible answers is not yet well charted. One cluster of such problems is about how to construct fragmented models of belief, and another cluster is about normative questions that arise concerning the rational evaluation of fragmented beliefs and believers.
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