Editors:
- Details the latest developments and extensions of a prominent epistemological theory
- Includes new criticisms of evidentialism
- Features contributions by eminent epistemologists as well as up-and-coming researchers
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 398)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Evidentialism
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Evidentialism and Social Epistemology
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Challenges for Evidentialism
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About this book
This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification. It contains more than 20 papers that examine its nuances, its challenges, as well as its future directions. Written by leading and up-and-coming epistemologists, the papers cover a wide array of topics related to evidentialism.
The contributors present both sides of the theory: some are advocates of evidentialism, while others are critics. This provides readers with a comprehensive, and cutting-edge, understanding of this epistemic theory.
Overall, the book is organized into six parts: The Nature of Evidence, Understanding Evidentialism, Problems for Evidentialism, Evidentialism and Social Epistemology, New Directions for Evidentialism, and Explanationist Evidentialism.
Readers will find insightful discussion on such issues as the ontology of evidence, phenomenal dogmatism, how experiences yield evidence, the new evil demon problem, probability, norms of credibility, intellectual virtues, wisdom, epistemic justification, and more.This title provides authoritative coverage of evidentialism, from the latest developments to the most recent philosophical criticisms. It will appeal to researchers and graduate students searching for more information on this prominent epistemological theory.
Keywords
- Criticism of Evidentialism
- Dogmatism
- Epistemic Justice
- Epistemic Justification
- Evidence
- Evidential Support
- Evidentialism
- Explanationism
- Explanationist Evidentialism
- Experiential Evidence
- Inference to the best Explanation
- Intellectual Virtues
- Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology
- Justification of Memory Beliefs
- Metacognition and Evidence
- New Evil Demon Problem
- Phenomenal Conservatism
- Relation of Evidence and Probability
- Testimonial Injustice
- Wisdom
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Kevin McCain
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
Book Subtitle: New Essays on Evidentialism
Editors: Kevin McCain
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95992-4Published: 15 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07123-3Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95993-1Published: 02 October 2018
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 395
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of the Social Sciences