Evidence of evidence is not (necessarily) evidence

Analysis 72 (1):85-88 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In this note, I consider various precisifications of the slogan ‘evidence of evidence is evidence’. I provide counter-examples to each of these precisifications (assuming an epistemic probabilistic relevance notion of ‘evidential support’)

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1093/analys/anr126

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Objective evidence and absence: Comment on Sober.Michael Strevens - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 143 (1):91 - 100.
No Evidence is False.Clayton Littlejohn - 2013 - Acta Analytica 28 (2):145-159.
Carnap and Achinstein on evidence.Frederick M. Kronz - 1992 - Philosophical Studies 67 (2):151 - 167.
[1 − p(X, z)][1 − p(y, z)]/p(y, z) if p(y, z) >.Karl Popper & David Miller - unknown
Evidence-Based Policy: Promises and Challenges.Mark Colyvan & Adam La Caze - unknown
On the Relationship between Reasons and Evidence.Christopher Cloos - manuscript
Toward evidence-based evidence: Supporting forensic knowledge claims in the post-daubert era.Simon A. Cole - unknown
What evidence do you have?Ram Neta - 2008 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (1):89-119.
Evidence neutrality.Brian Weatherson - manuscript
Robust evidence and secure evidence claims.Kent W. Staley - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (4):467-488.
Discussion note: Positive relevance defended.Sherrilyn Roush† - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (1):110-116.
Restoring ambiguity to Achinstein's account of evidence.Steven Gimbel - 2004 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2):269-285.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-03-06

Downloads
678 (#23,535)

6 months
27 (#107,707)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Branden Fitelson
Northeastern University

Citations of this work

Higher-Order Evidence.Daniel Whiting - 2021 - Analysis 80 (4):789-807.
Suspending is Believing.Thomas Raleigh - 2019 - Synthese (3):1-26.
Reasons and Theoretical Rationality.Clayton Littlejohn - 2018 - In Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
When Expert Disagreement Supports the Consensus.Finnur Dellsén - 2018 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (1):142-156.

View all 30 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Mental causation.Stephen Yablo - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (2):245-280.
Having evidence.Richard Feldman - 1988 - In D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 83--104.
Confirmation and relevance.Wesley C. Salmon - 1983 - In Peter Achinstein (ed.), The Concept of Evidence. Oxford University Press.
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem?Lei Zhong - 2010 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (1):129-147.

Add more references