Pierre’s Rational and Public Beliefs

Paradigmatic cases of disagreement seem not to be compatible with a widespread kind of solution to Kripke’s celebrated Pierre puzzle. As a result, the classical puzzle about rational belief is shown to be also a puzzle about public disagreement/agreement phenomena. In this paper, I defend that the...

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Main Author: Victor Verdejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2012-09-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/28340
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description Paradigmatic cases of disagreement seem not to be compatible with a widespread kind of solution to Kripke’s celebrated Pierre puzzle. As a result, the classical puzzle about rational belief is shown to be also a puzzle about public disagreement/agreement phenomena. In this paper, I defend that the new public version of the puzzle is substantial and challenging and conclude that a full solution to Kripke’s considerations must offer a satisfactory account of both the rational and public character of belief attributions. I then argue that a notion of non-belief-individuating understanding is plausibly the key notion that would allow us to arrest both versions of the Pierre puzzle.
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spelling doaj-art-e8c16c55f6d54ac7a5e21217dde380592025-08-20T02:48:45ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1808-17112012-09-0116310.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n3p45120758Pierre’s Rational and Public BeliefsVictor Verdejo0Universidade Santiago de Compostela Paradigmatic cases of disagreement seem not to be compatible with a widespread kind of solution to Kripke’s celebrated Pierre puzzle. As a result, the classical puzzle about rational belief is shown to be also a puzzle about public disagreement/agreement phenomena. In this paper, I defend that the new public version of the puzzle is substantial and challenging and conclude that a full solution to Kripke’s considerations must offer a satisfactory account of both the rational and public character of belief attributions. I then argue that a notion of non-belief-individuating understanding is plausibly the key notion that would allow us to arrest both versions of the Pierre puzzle. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/28340
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