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Evidentialism at 40: New Arguments, New Angles book cover

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Evidentialism at 40 New Arguments, New Angles

Edited By Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, Matthias Steup Copyright 2026
378 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

378 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume presents state-of-the-art research on issues related to evidentialism. It demonstrates the continuing relevance of evidentialist epistemology by bringing it into direct confrontation with some of its latest non-evidentialist rivals and by proposing new areas for exploration and development. Conee and Feldman’s landmark paper “Evidentialism” (1985) served as a launching point for an... Read more

Introductory Note: New Arguments and New Angles on Evidentialism Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, and Matthias Steup

Part 1: Understanding Evidentialism
1. Varieties of Evidentialism Thomas Kelly
2. Permissivist Evidentialism Elizabeth Jackson
3. Support Per (and For) Evidentialism Kelley Annesley
4. Extreme Evidentialism Scott Stapleford and Kevin McCain
5. Rethinking Evidentialism Duncan Pritchard
6. How to Combine Evidentialism with Knowledge-First Epistemology Giada Fratantonio

Part 2: Evidentialism and Normativity
7. Does Epistemology Rest on a Mistake? Rochester Internalism and the Normative Question Juan Comesaña
8. Evidentialism, Encroachment, and the Moral Importance of Understanding Anna Brinkerhoff
9. The Applied Moral Turn of the Ethics of Belief Debate Stephanie Leary
10. Why Are (Some) Epistemic Norms Evidential? Kate Nolfi

Part 3: Challenges for Evidentialism
11. Evidentialism and Foundationalism Ernest Sosa
12. Against Indicator Evidentialism Jack Lyons
13. Evidentialism and Having Evidence Matthew McGrath
14. What is Sufficient Evidence? Clayton Littlejohn
15. Zetetic Norms: A Puzzle for Evidentialism? Verena Wagner
16. Evidentialism and Normative Expectations Jonathan Matheson
17. Evidence and Withholding: Four Recent Objections to Evidentialism Matthias Steup

Part 4: New Angles for Evidentialism
18. Group Evidence, Group Belief, and Group Responsibility Transmission Mona Simion, Christoph Kelp, and Glen Pettigrove
19. Purism and Pluralism: On the Brilliance of Tarot and the Breadth of Epistemology Georgi Gardiner
20. Reasoned Change in Logic Elijah Chudnoff
21. Experience, Plausibility, and Evidence Ted Poston

Part 5: Evidentialists Against Evidentialism
22. Evidentialism and Pragmatism Disputed; Evidential and Practical Reasons Defended Richard Feldman and Earl Conee

Biography

Kevin McCain is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has authored and edited several works in epistemology and philosophy of science.

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. He has authored and edited several works in epistemology and Early Modern philosophy.

Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has edited several books and authored many articles in epistemology.

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