Pragmatic encroachment: It's not just about knowledge

  • Jeremy Fantl
  • , Matthew McGrath

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Abstract

There is pragmatic encroachment on some epistemic status just in case whether a proposition has that status for a subject depends not only on the subject's epistemic position with respect to the proposition, but also on features of the subject's non-epistemic, practical environment. Discussions of pragmatic encroachment usually focus on knowledge. Here we argue that, barring infallibilism, there is pragmatic encroachment on what is arguably a more fundamental epistemic status – the status a proposition has when it is warranted enough to be a reason one has for believing other things.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-42
Number of pages16
JournalEpisteme
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

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