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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 1. Every depicted situation is evidentially accessible from every other. A thin (thick) arrow from w to v means that w is at least as normal as (sufficiently more normal than) v ; situations in the same box are equally normal; an arrow from one box to another means that the relevant
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 395–425.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Han van Wietmarschen The central question of the peer disagreement debate is: what should you believe about the disputed proposition if you have good reason to believe that an epistemic peer disagrees with you? This article shows that this question is ambiguous between evidential support...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., with respect to objective causation. The essay begins with Newcomb problems, which turn on an apparent tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential factors. Two-boxers give priority...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 January 2021
... that assumes evidential probabilities to evolve by classic conditionalization, let us assume that whenever a subject undergoes a seeming-state with p as its content, the proposition that it seems to her that p comes to be part of her evidence, and that in a case where that is the totality of her new...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 551–554.
Published: 01 October 2017
... are exclusively evidential. So following the evidence is always required. McCormick gets behind the opposing, pragmatist view, which denies this. It's pretty tame pragmatism, however, since straying from the evidence is usually wrong, we're assured. Still, if McCormick is right, then it's lights out...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 89–145.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 1. Every depicted situation is evidentially accessible from every other. A thin (thick) arrow from w to v means that w is at least as normal as (sufficiently more normal than) v ; situations in the same box are equally normal; an arrow from one box to another means that the relevant...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
... are conditional probabilities whenever the mode of supposition is evidential. © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 I am grateful to Frank Döring, Dorothy Edgington, Christian List, and Olivier Roy, as well as an anonymous referee for the Philosophical Review , for their helpful comments on earlier drafts...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Rachael Briggs It is a platitude among decision theorists that agents should choose their actions so as to maximize expected value. But exactly how to define expected value is contentious. Evidential decision theory (henceforth EDT), causal decision theory (henceforth CDT), and a theory proposed...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 67–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... Tomberlin, 57 -89. Cambridge: Blackwell. Feldman, Richard, and Earl Conee. 1985 . “Evidentialism.” Philosophical Studies 48 : 15 -34. Foley, Richard. 2000 . “Epistemically Rational Belief and Responsible Belief.” In Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy , ed. R. Cobb-Stevens...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
... being inhabited. That is, a posterior Pr ∗ ( − ) is ordinary if and only if for each n such that Pr ( U n ) > 0 , U n I n ≿ ∗ U 1 I 1 . Theorem 4. Let Pr ( − ) be a separable, evidentially natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 447–482.
Published: 01 October 2003
... that p must be considerations that are
taken as relevant of the truth of p. Thus, my hypothesis also accounts
for the essentially evidential character of norms of rational belief,
something noncognitivist accounts of rationality leave inexplicable.
Because my proposal is that exercising...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 484–489.
Published: 01 July 2020
... consequentialism should consider alternatives. What we need is an interpretation on which consequentialist tools are illuminating, but epistemic bribes are not sanctioned. Here—perhaps—is one. Call it accuracy-first evidentialism . It is a two-tiered theory. The first tier is simple: you are epistemically...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 93–114.
Published: 01 January 2007
... by
something like the following line of argument: Evidential decision
theory endorses irrational courses of action in a range of examples and
endorses “an irrational policy of managing the news” (Lewis 1981, 5).
These are fatal problems for evidential decision theory. Causal decision
theory delivers...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 629–631.
Published: 01 October 2001
... species of belief, says Helm, but is subject to the same stan-
dards of evidence and criticism as other beliefs. In addition to the epistemic
and evidential aspects of religious faith one must add the element of trust.
Faith is distinguished from mere notional assent by the fact that the persons...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 January 2005
... that the skeptic needs. The skeptic
needs to establish the claim:
C I don’t know that I am not an incorporeal victim of an evil
demon.
But to progress from B to C, the skeptic needs to invoke an additional
premise, which I shall label Evidential Constraint on Knowledge (EC):
EC In order...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 187–217.
Published: 01 April 2007
... epistemic response to a given evidential
situation. Perhaps, two people could share all relevant evidence, react
to that evidence faultlessly, and yet reach different conclusions. If that
is possible, then it might seem that in the case of disagreement with a
peer, one could adopt what Adam Elga...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 April 2001
... distinguish between evidential and causal
probability, and use the latter in the formulation of the PMEU. To illustrate
the distinction, in our example the evidential probability that S is Ps father
conditional on his choosing G is much higher than the evidential probability
that Sis Ps father...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of compensating for a lack of grammaticized evidentials, the syntax I prefer is one on which parentheticals occupy an evidential or evidential-like projection. For relevant discussion of their syntax, see Roor- yck 2001a, 2001b; Giorgi 2010; Hedberg and Elouazizi 2015. Elly Ifantidou (1993), Simons (2007...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 497–529.
Published: 01 October 2010
...’.8 It is
usually assumed that evidence can propositionally justify a proposition
for a subject. In such a case, we can say that the evidence is an evidential
warrant. It is more controversial as to whether there are nonevidential war-
rants, whether a proposition can be propositionally justified...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 617–621.
Published: 01 October 2000
... into
the discussion several years ago’ and which O’Connor incorrectly reports
‘Alston, “The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condi-
tion,” esp. 120-21, and “Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Argu-
ments from Evil,” esp. 321-22, both in The Evidential Argument from Evil...
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