[WP1] Evidence in epistemology

WP leader: Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA – UB)

Extant epistemological theories of evidence construe its relation to truth, knowledge, logical inference, and justification in a variety of ways. They disagree on such issues as whether evidence is factive (that p is part of one’s evidence implies that p is true), whether one’s evidence is what one knows, whether it is sufficient in order for p to be justified that the probability of p conditional on the evidence E be high, and whether evidence is luminous, i.e. on whether p is part of one’s evidence only if one is in a position to know that p is part of one’s evidence. Resolution of such questions has consequences for our understanding of epistemic rationality and the correct conception of norms for belief.