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  • Chapter 8 - Defeaters as Ignorance Indicators

  • from Part II - Resistance to Evidence and Epistemic Proper Function
  • Mona Simion, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Resistance to Evidence
    Published online:
    16 February 2024
    Print publication:
    15 February 2024, pp 124-137
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    This chapter puts forth and defends a novel view of defeat, and it shows that it is superior to its competition in that it can account for the epistemic impermissibility of defeat resistance cases and normative defeat cases, as well as for the effect ignored defeat has on doxastic justification. On this account, defeaters are ignorance indicators1: facts that one is in a position to know and that reduce one’s evidential probability that p. Furthermore, I also put forth a novel account of the normativity at work in cases of normative defeat and negligent inquiry and evidence gathering.