Evidence and Bias

In Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Clayton Littlejohn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence. Routledge (2019)
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I argue that evidentialism should be rejected because it cannot be reconciled with empirical work on bias in cognitive and social psychology

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