Evidentialism and its discontents / edited by Trent Dougherty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dougherty, Trent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, leading epistemologists challenge and refine evidentialism, the view that epistemic justification for belief is determined solely by considerations pertaining to one's evidence. Earl Conee and Richard Feldman, the leading advocates of evidentialism, respond to each essay in this engaging and illuminating debate.

Contents:

Epistemological egoism and agent-centered norms / Michael Huemer

The rational significance of reflective ascent / Jonathan Kvanvig

Evidentialism and the paradox of parity / Keith Lehrer

From internalist evidentialism to virtue responsibilism / Guy Axtell

Evidentialism, vice, and virtue / Jason Baehr

Evidentialist anti-skepticism / Matthias Steup

Evidentialism and the Great Pumpkin objection / Michael Bergmann

Questioning evidentialism / Keith DeRose

Improbable knowing / Timothy Williamson

Evidentialism about knowledge / John Greco

Evidentialism and truth / Richard Fumerton

Evidence / Richard Swinburne

Making it evident: evidence and evidentness, justification, and belief / Patrick Rysiew

In defense of propositionalism about evidence / Trent Dougherty

Evidentialism, internalism, disjunctivism / Duncan Pritchard

Toward a synthesis of reliabilism and evidentialism? Or: evidentialism's troubles, reliabilism's rescue package / Alvin I. Goldman

Replies / Earl Conee and Richard Feldman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-150503-X

1-283-35237-0

9786613352378

0-19-161794-6

OCLC:

922970510