Standing in a garden of forking
Book chapter
Littlejohn, Clayton. (2018). Standing in a garden of forking. In In McCain, Kevin (Ed.). Believing in accordance with the evidence : New essays on evidentialism pp. 223-243 Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1_13
Authors | Littlejohn, Clayton |
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Editors | McCain, Kevin |
Abstract | According to the Path Principle, a thinker has the propositional justification that she does because of the evidence she has and the support relations this evidence provides. Whenever a thinker properly added a belief to her belief set, this is (in part) because her evidence provided her a path that took her to this belief. Whenever a thinker cannot properly add a belief to her belief set, this is because her evidence does not provide her with the right path. Epistemic standing, on this view, is largely determined by the paths provided by a thinker’s evidence. If we can give an account of evidence, its possession, and evidential support in non-normative terms, we could then use the Path Principle to give a nice, reductive account of justification. It might appear that the Path Principle is platitudinous, but appearances are sometimes misleading. I'll raise two kinds of problems for the Path Principle. |
Keywords | epistemic standing; evidential support; path principle; propositional justification; doxastic justification |
Page range | 223-243 |
Year | 2018 |
Book title | Believing in accordance with the evidence : New essays on evidentialism |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Series | Synthese library : Studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science ; volume 398 |
ISBN | 9783319959924 |
9783319959931 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1_13 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85114799404 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 03 Oct 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 02 Jun 2022 |
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