Southern Journal of Philosophy 50 (1):151-169 (2012)
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Some recent work in formal epistemology shows that “witness agreement” by itself implies neither an increase in the probability of truth nor a high probability of truth—the witnesses need to have some “individual credibility.” It can seem that, from this formal epistemological result, it follows that coherentist justification (i.e., doxastic coherence) is not truth-conducive. I argue that this does not follow. Central to my argument is the thesis that, though coherentists deny that there can be noninferential justification, coherentists do not deny that there can be individual credibility
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Keywords | Coherentist justification Individual credibility Noninferential justification Truth-conduciveness Witness agreement |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00086.x |
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