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Evidentialism: A Primer

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This brief chapter provides a general overview of evidentialism by explaining evidentialism’s most fundamental claim about epistemic justification, that such justification supervenes on an agent’s evidence. Additionally, the chapter explains that evidentialism requires more clarification and detailing. Finally, short summaries of the other chapters included in this book are provided in this chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Dougherty (2011).

  2. 2.

    It is this amazement that led them to write their landmark “Evidentialism” in 1985.

  3. 3.

    See Conee and Feldman (1985, 2004, 2008).

  4. 4.

    This is a point I emphasize in my (2014).

  5. 5.

    See Conee and Feldman (2011) and my (2014).

  6. 6.

    Thanks to Kevin Lee for helpful comments on this chapter and for editorial assistance throughout the entire volume.

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  • Conee, E., & Feldman, R. (2004). Making sense of skepticism. In E. Conee & R. Feldman (Eds.), Evidentialism (pp. 277–206). New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • Conee, E., & Feldman, R. (2008). Evidence. In Q. Smith (Ed.), Epistemology: New essays (pp. 83–104). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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  • Conee, E., & Feldman, R. (2011). Replies. In T. Dougherty (Ed.), Evidentialism and its discontents (pp. 428–501). New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • McCain, K. (2014). Evidentialism and epistemic justification. New York: Routledge.

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    Kevin McCain

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McCain, K. (2018). Evidentialism: A Primer. In: McCain, K. (eds) Believing in Accordance with the Evidence. Synthese Library, vol 398. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95993-1_1

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