Pragmatic encroachment on knowledge?

• Main Author: Wong, Don Wei Wen
• Other Authors: Olav Benjamin Vassend
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147351
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Much debate has centred around the contentious idea that having knowledge is a matter that is at least partly dependent on some non-truth connected factors, as in our non-epistemic, practical reasons or aims. This is the notion of pragmatic encroachment on knowledge. This view of knowledge has been...