Two Kinds of Stakes |
| |
| Authors: | Alex Worsnip |
| |
| Affiliation: | Department of PhilosophyYale University |
| |
| Abstract: | I distinguish two different kinds of practical stakes associated with propositions. The W‐stakes (world) track what is at stake with respect to whether the proposition is true or false. The A‐stakes (attitude) track what is at stake with respect to whether an agent believes (or relies on) the proposition. This poses a dilemma for those who claim that whether a proposition is known can depend on the stakes associated with it. Only the W‐stakes reading of this view preserves intuitions about knowledge‐attributions, but only the A‐stakes reading preserves the putative link between knowledge and practical reasoning that has motivated it. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
|
|
