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Evidentialism - Essays in Epistemology (Paperback, New)
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Evidentialism - Essays in Epistemology (Paperback, New)
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Evidentialism is a view about the conditions under which a person
is epistemically justified in having a particular doxastic attitude
toward a proposition. Evidentialism holds that the justified
attitudes are determined entirely by the person's evidence. This is
the traditional view of justification. It is now widely opposed.
The essays included in this volume develop and defend the
tradition. Evidentialism has many assets. In addition to providing
an intuitively plausible account of epistemic justification, it
helps to resolve the problem of the criterion, helps to disentangle
epistemic and ethical evaluations, and illuminates the relationship
between epistemic evaluations of beliefs and the evaluation of the
methods used to form beliefs. These issues are all addressed in the
essays presented here. External world skepticism poses the classic
problem for an epistemological theory. The final essay in this
volume argues that evidentialism is uniquely well qualified to make
sense of skepticism and to respond to its challenge. Evidentialism
is a version of epistemic internalism. Recent epistemology has
included many attacks on internalism and has seen the development
of numerous externalist theories. The essays included here respond
to those attacks and raise objections to externalist theories,
especially the principal rival, reliabilism. Internalism generally
has been criticized for having unacceptable deontological
implications, for failing to connect epistemic justification to
truth, and for failing to provide an adequate account of what makes
basic beliefs justified. Each of these charges is answered in these
essays. The collection includes two previously unpublished essays
and new afterwords to five of the reprinted essays; it will be the
definitive resource on evidentialism for all epistemologists.
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