Compêndio Em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica (
2017)
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Abstract
Evidentialism is an internalist view (or family of views) about
epistemic justification saying that a subject s’s epistemic justification
entirely depends on the evidence at her disposal. In order to distil a
complete theory of epistemic justification from this general principle
it is necessary to answer three main questions. What kind of entities
constitute a subject’s evidence? What does it take for a piece of evidence
E to support a proposition P? What does it take for a subject s to possess
E? In this entry I describe the main answers defended in the literature
in response to these three questions, and critically discuss the main
objections that have been raised against evidentialism, both at a general
level and as targeting more specific variants of it.