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Series:   Elements in Epistemology

Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2022

Ru Ye
Ru Ye
Affiliation:
Wuhan University

Summary

The higher-order evidence debate concerns how higher-order evidence affects the rationality of our first-order beliefs. This Element has two parts. The first part (Sections 1 and 2) provides a critical overview of the literature, aiming to explain why the higher-order evidence debate is interesting and important. The second part (Sections 3 to 6) defends calibrationism, the view that we should respond to higher-order evidence by aligning our credences to our reliability degree. The author first discusses the traditional version of calibrationism and explains its main difficulties, before proposing a new version of calibrationism called 'Evidence-Discounting Calibrationism.' The Element argues that this new version is independently plausible and that it can avoid the difficulties faced by the traditional version.
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higher-order evidenceepistemic rationalityconditionalizationevidencedefeat
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Series: Elements in Epistemology
Online ISBN: 9781009127332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 26 January 2023

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