Higher-order evidence and calibrationism / Ru Ye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ye, Ru, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology.

Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology 2398-0567

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The higher-order evidence debate concerns how higher-order evidence affects the rationality of our first-order beliefs. This Element has two parts. The first part (Sections 1 and 2) provides a critical overview of the literature, aiming to explain why the higher-order evidence debate is interesting and important. The second part (Sections 3 to 6) defends calibrationism, the view that we should respond to higher-order evidence by aligning our credences to our reliability degree. The author first discusses the traditional version of calibrationism and explains its main difficulties, before proposing a new version of calibrationism called 'Evidence-Discounting Calibrationism.' The Element argues that this new version is independently plausible and that it can avoid the difficulties faced by the traditional version.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Major positions in the higher-order evidence debate 3. Calibrationism and its main motivations 4. The problem of ignoring evidence 5. The conflict with conditionalization 6. Evidence-discounting calibrationism 7. Conclusion

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009369633

1009369636

9781009369640

1009369644

9781009127332

1009127330