<p>Recently several philosophers have argued that practical and epistemic reasons for belief can be weighed against each other. Two weighing models have been provided by Andrew Reisner and Christopher Howard. A problem for both models is that they deliver highly implausible verdicts about specific cases. I propose a new model that retains all the advantages of the others but avoids their problems. My model relies on the idea that we almost always have strong practical reasons to hold a doxastic attitude supported by sufficient epistemic reasons. This reason is weighed with other practical reasons to determine which doxastic attitude we should hold all-things-considered.</p>

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A New Weighing Model for Interactionist Pragmatism

  • Guowei Lai

摘要

Recently several philosophers have argued that practical and epistemic reasons for belief can be weighed against each other. Two weighing models have been provided by Andrew Reisner and Christopher Howard. A problem for both models is that they deliver highly implausible verdicts about specific cases. I propose a new model that retains all the advantages of the others but avoids their problems. My model relies on the idea that we almost always have strong practical reasons to hold a doxastic attitude supported by sufficient epistemic reasons. This reason is weighed with other practical reasons to determine which doxastic attitude we should hold all-things-considered.