A defense of objectivism about evidential support

Brian Hedden*

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Abstract

Objectivism about evidential support is the thesis that facts about the degree to which a body of evidence supports a hypothesis are objective rather than depending on subjective factors like ones own language or epistemic values. Objectivism about evidential support is key to defending a synchronic, time-slice-centric conception of epistemic rationality, on which what you ought to believe at a time depends only on what evidence you have at that time, and not on how you were at previous times. Here, I defend a version of objectivism about evidential support on which facts about evidential support are grounded in facts about explanatoriness.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)716-743
Number of pages28
JournalCanadian Journal of Philosophy
Volume45
Issue number5-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes

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