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Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge (Hardcover)
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What strength of evidence is required for knowledge? Ordinarily, we
often claim to know something on the basis of evidence which
doesn't guarantee its truth. For instance, one might claim to know
that one sees a crow on the basis of visual experience even though
having that experience does not guarantee that there is a crow (it
might be a rook, or one might be dreaming). As a result, those
wanting to avoid philosophical scepticism have standardly embraced
"fallibilism": one can know a proposition on the basis of evidence
that supports it even if the evidence doesn't guarantee its truth.
Despite this, there's been a persistent temptation to endorse
"infallibilism", according to which knowledge requires evidence
that guarantees truth. For doesn't it sound contradictory to
simultaneously claim to know and admit the possibility of error?
Infallibilism is undergoing a contemporary renaissance.
Furthermore, recent infallibilists make the surprising claim that
they can avoid scepticism. Jessica Brown presents a fresh
examination of the debate between these two positions. She argues
that infallibilists can avoid scepticism only at the cost of
problematic commitments concerning evidence and evidential support.
Further, she argues that alleged objections to fallibilism are not
compelling. She concludes that we should be fallibilists. In doing
so, she discusses the nature of evidence, evidential support,
justification, blamelessness, closure for knowledge, defeat,
epistemic akrasia, practical reasoning, concessive knowledge
attributions, and the threshold problem.
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