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Contextualism about evidential support
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dc.contributor.author | Brown, Jessica Anne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-15T00:31:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-15T00:31:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03 | |
dc.identifier | 152518962 | |
dc.identifier | 73bd281e-8253-4dc1-acdd-b4dbd701155f | |
dc.identifier | 84961202618 | |
dc.identifier | 000372899900005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brown , J A 2016 , ' Contextualism about evidential support ' , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 92 , no. 2 , pp. 329-354 . https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12164 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8205 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-1149-4814/work/69029155 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10104 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I examine a contextualist thesis that has been little discussed in comparison with contextualism about knowledge, namely contextualism about evidential support. This seems surprising since, prima facie, evidential support statements seem shifty in a way parallel to knowledge ascriptions. I examine but reject the suggestion that contrastivism about evidential support is motivated by arguments analogous to those used to motivate contrastivism about knowledge including sceptical closure arguments, the nature of inquiry, the existence of explicitly contrastive evidential support statements, and the intuitive shiftiness of some binary evidential support statements. I end by discussing the relations between contextualism about evidential support, evidence and knowledge. In particular, I argue that my discussion of contrastivism about evidential support undermines Neta's contextualist view about evidence, and his broader suggestion that the shiftiness of evidence statements explains the shiftiness of knowledge ascriptions. | |
dc.format.extent | 26 | |
dc.format.extent | 406102 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.title | Contextualism about evidential support | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/phpr.12164 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2017-01-14 |
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