Believable Evidence

Informationen zum Autor Velislava Mitova is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg. She is editor of The Factive Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge, 2018). Klappentext The first comprehensive account of the nature of evidence, presenting innovative and influential arguments concerning the ontology of reasons. Zusammenfassung Believable Evidence argues that evidence consists of true beliefs. The first contemporary monograph entirely devoted to the ontology of evidence! it challenges a broad range of current views on reasons in an accessible way! making it a must-read for scholars and advanced students in metaethics and epistemology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Solid Metaethical Foundations: 1. The standard story; 2. The beast of two burdens; 3. Extreme psychologism about reasons; 4. Truthy; Part II. Sound Epistemological Structure: 5. Truthy psychologism; 6. Truthy psychologism gives us everything we want; 7. If E then EB?; 8. If TB then E?; Part III. Fruitful Metaepistemic Soil: 9. Who can tell us why to care about the evidence?; 10. Truthy psychologism and the authority of evidence.

Product details

• Authors: Veli Mitova, Veli (University of Johannesburg) Mitova, Velislava Mitova
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107188600
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18860-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge