Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism
The higher-order evidence debate concerns how higher-order evidence affects the rationality of our first-order beliefs. This Element has two parts. The first part (Sections 1 and 2) provides a critical overview of the literature, aiming to explain why the higher-order evidence debate is interesting and important. The second part (Sections 3 to 6) defends calibrationism, the view that we should respond to higher-order evidence by aligning our credences to our reliability degree. The author first discusses the traditional version of calibrationism and explains its main difficulties, before proposing a new version of calibrationism called 'Evidence-Discounting Calibrationism.' The Element argues that this new version is independently plausible and that it can avoid the difficulties faced by the traditional version.
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January 2023Adobe eBook Reader
9781009369640
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Major positions in the HOE debate
- 3. Calibrationism and its main motivations
- 4. The problem of ignoring evidence
- 5. The conflict with conditionalization
- 6. Evidence-discounting calibrationism
- 7. Conclusion
- References.