Evidential support and best explanations

Philosophical Issues 30 (1):71-85 (2020)
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The essay seeks the best combination of internal and external factors in the evidential support that we can have for a proposition. After identifying the combination, the essay criticizes views according to which our evidence supports propositions in virtue of the propositions explaining the evidence to us.

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10.1111/phis.12172

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Appreciating the need for autonomy, or recognizing the truth of evidentialism?Kevin McCain - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

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Knowledge and its Limits.Timothy Williamson - 2000 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (1):200-201.
Undaunted Explanationism.Kevin McCain - 2017 - Logos and Episteme 8 (1):117-127.

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