Epistemic Duties and Failure to Understand one's Evidence

The paper defends the thesis that our epistemic duty is the duty to proportion our beliefs to the evidence we possess. An inclusive view of evidenced possessed is put forward on the grounds that it makes sense of our intuitions about when it is right to say that a person ought to believe some propos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott Stapleford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2012-08-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/23284