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  • Brian Weatherson(author)
Chapter of: Knowledge: A Human Interest Story(pp. 217–246)
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Title Evidence
ContributorBrian Weatherson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0425.09
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0425/chapters/10.11647/obp.0425.09
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBrian Weatherson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-11-21
Long abstract

This chapter sets out my interest-relative theory of evidence. I argue that one’s evidence just is what a radical interpreter would say one’s evidence is. But, I go on to argue, in some cases that means we end up playing a kind of coordination game with the radical interpreter. What our evidence is turns on what the right solution to that game. And the solution is interest-relative, but not in the way that knowledge is, nor in the way that rational belief is.

Page rangepp. 217–246
Print length30 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Brian Weatherson

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Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-141X
https://brian.weatherson.org/

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/.

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