Believing in accordance with the evidence : new essays on evidentialism /: new essays on evidentialism. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kevin McCain, editor.
• Editors: McCain, Kevin
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; 1 Evidentialism: A Primer; References; Part I The Nature of Evidence; 2 From Experience to Evidence: Sensory and Testimonial; 2.1 Framing Examples and Introduction; 2.2 Preliminary Assumptions; 2.3 From Sensory Experience to Evidence; 2.4 From Testimonial Experience to Evidence; 2.5 Challenges from the Epistemology of Testimony: Acceptance and Assurance; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 The Evidence in Evidentialism; 3.1 The Evidence-First Approach; 3.1.1 The Simple Factoring Account; 3.1.2 The Revised Factoring Account; 3.1.3 Going Disjunctive 3.2 Abandoning the Evidence-First Approach3.3 Conclusion; References; 4 Seemings, Reasons, and Knowledge: A Defense of Phenomenal Conservatism; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 From Commonsensism About Knowledge to Reasons Commonsensism; References; 5 Phenomenal Dogmatism, Seeming Evidentialism and Inferential Justification; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Phenomenal Dogmatism; 5.3 Epistemic Elitism; 5.4 The Skeptical Worry and Inferential Justification; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Part II Understanding Evidentialism; 6 Between Belief and Disbelief; 6.1 The Middle Ground; 6.2 The Epistemology of the Middle Ground 6.2.1 Nearly Counterbalanced Evidence6.2.2 The (c4) Cases; 6.2.3 Puzzles About the Evidence One Has; 6.2.4 Borderline Cases; 6.3 Philosophical Positions; 6.4 Conclusion; A.1 Appendix; References; 7 Metacognition As Evidence for Evidentialism; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Metacognition in Memory; 7.3 Evidentialism; 7.4 Reliabilism; 7.5 Conclusion; References; 8 Externalist Versions of Evidentialism; 8.1 What Is Evidentialism?; 8.2 Four Grades of Externalism; 8.3 Evidentialism Exhibiting the First Grade of Externalism; 8.4 Evidentialism Exhibiting the Second Grade of Externalism 8.5 Evidentialism Exhibiting the Third Grade of Externalism8.6 Evidentialism Exhibiting the Fourth Grade of Externalism; 8.7 Are Any of These Evidentialist Views True?; References; Part III Evidentialism and Social Epistemology; 9 An Evidentialist Social Epistemology; 9.1 Preliminaries; 9.2 Feldman's Higher-Order Account of Disagreement; 9.3 Beyond Ideal Disagreements; 9.4 Extending the Higher-Order Account of Disagreement to Testimony; 9.5 Mind-Reading Evidence; 9.6 Conclusion; Reference; 10 Credibility and the Distribution of Epistemic Goods; 10.1 Evidentialist Norm of Credibility 10.2 Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice10.3 Distributive Testimonial Injustice; 10.4 Normative Testimonial Injustice; 10.5 Wide Norm of Credibility; 10.6 Conclusion; References; 11 Evidentialism and Moral Encroachment; 11.1 Friendship and Evidence; 11.2 Recent Challenges to Evidentialism; 11.3 The Challenge from Moral Encroachment; 11.4 The Inadequacy of Merely Statistical Evidence; 11.5 Objections to Moral Encroachment; 11.6 Resisting Moral Encroachment; 11.7 Understanding; Bibliography; Part IV Challenges for Evidentialism; 12 A Probabilistic Critique of Evidentialism
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 121.65; Philosophy; Evidence; Social Science -- Methodology; Philosophy -- Movements -- General; Social research & statistics; Social & political philosophy; Genetic epistemology; Social sciences_xMethodology; Social sciences_xPhilosophy; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319959931
• Related ISBNs: 331995993X; 3319959921; 9783319959924
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 07, 2018).
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