Book chapter
Evidentialism and Explanatory Fit
Believing in Accordance with the Evidence, pp.329-343
Synthese Library, Springer International Publishing
2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1_19
Abstract
In this paper I’ll focus first on the general idea of evidentialism and then on the explanationist’s suggestion as to how we understand the content of a belief fitting evidence. I’ll argue that, in general, evidentialists have difficulty understanding foundationally justified belief. Further, I’ll argue than an explanationist will need something other than best explanation so that the view can account for the idea that we discover explanda that are in need of an explanans.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evidentialism and Explanatory Fit
- Creators
- Richard Fumerton - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Believing in Accordance with the Evidence, pp.329-343
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Series
- Synthese Library
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1_19
- eISSN
- 2542-8292
- ISSN
- 0166-6991
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397943302771
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