Stakes sensitivity and transformative experience

Journal article

I trace the relationship between the view that knowledge is stakes sensitive and Laurie Paul’s (2014) account of the epistemology of transformative experience. The view that knowledge is stakes sensitive comes in different flavours: one can go for subjective or objective conceptions of stakes, where subjective views of stakes take stakes to be a function of an agent’s non-factive mental states, and objective views of stakes do not. I argue that there is a tension between subjective accounts o...

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Authors: Fraser, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher's website
• Journal: Analysis Journal website
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34–39
• Publication date: 2017-12-08
• Acceptance date: 2017-10-01
• DOI: 10.1093/analys/anx151
• EISSN: 1467-8284
• ISSN: 0003-2638
• Language: English