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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 716-743 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Philosophy |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 5-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Nov 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |