Forget and Forgive: A Practical Approach to Forgotten Evidence

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 2 (2015)
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Abstract

We can make new progress on stalled debates in epistemology if we adopt a new practical approach, an approach concerned with the function served by epistemic evaluations. This paper illustrates how. I apply the practical approach to an important, unsolved problem: the problem of forgotten evidence. Section 1 describes the problem and why it is so challenging. Section 2 outlines and defends a general view about the function of epistemic evaluations. Section 3 then applies that view to solve the problem of forgotten evidence.

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Sinan Dogramaci
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