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Brian Weatherson

Published On

2024-11-21

Page Range

pp. 217–246

Language

  • English

Print Length

30 pages

9. Evidence

Chapter of: Knowledge: A Human Interest Story (pp. 217–246)

This chapter sets out my interest-relative theory of evidence. I argue that one’s evidence just is what a radical interpreter would say one’s evidence is. But, I go on to argue, in some cases that means we end up playing a kind of coordination game with the radical interpreter. What our evidence is turns on what the right solution to that game. And the solution is interest-relative, but not in the way that knowledge is, nor in the way that rational belief is.

Contributors

Brian Weatherson

(author)
Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/